Reminded me a lot of 1996's Jerry Maguire

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 2017)

Oh well, this film is nothing special to rave about, but it is a good time waster and although an obvious aging Kevin Costner (62) who like many aging actors choose to color their hair in an unrealistic vanity color has an unrealistic sexual relationship with the much younger Jennifer Garner (44). I guess that was one way the producers were able to secure Costner in the lead role playing Sonny Weaver Jr., the GM for NFL's perennial losers the Cleveland Browns. Ms. Garner plays the teams financial guru Ali, who besides keeping the Browns books straight, Ali has also been keeping Sonny straight to the point that she is carrying his baby. As I said earlier this must have been another vanity project for Kostner as the stud GM porking the much younger and hotter bean counter Ali. I would have found the story line much more interesting and a lot less jaundiced if Kostner's love interest was someone more around his own age, someone like Michelle Pfeiffer, Jamie Lee Curtis or maybe Kim Basinger. I know this is just a sports film but if I am going to watch a film I want to at least feel as if the story line is somewhat realistic.
Okay so now that Kostner's irritating vanity has been addressed I could not help but be reminded of the player/agent Jerry Maguire in the film of the same name (Jerry Maguire-1996) played by Tom (snooze) Cruise who stuck by his injured wide receiver Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and so I quickly drew the comparison between Rod Tidwell and that of actor Chadwick Boseman as a college linebacker Vontae Mack. Boseman played his role to perfection not trying to be a scene stealer from the star Kostner but I must say my attention was on Boseman's performance more than anyone else's.
It is also difficult for me to believe that competing GM's could actually pull off the scenario on draft day that Cleveland Brown's GM Sonny Weaver Jr. pulled off in this film. I don't want to have to add this as a spoiler but I will end my review with a common statement made by many sportscasters including that made by ESPN's sportscaster Chris Berman who opened up the film and what he should have said was "Come on Man!!!!"