Costner Is The Only Reason I Made It To The End

Rating: 6/10 (3 November 2016)

Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Kevin Costner's filmography in order, I come to his third movie of 2014. Draft Day
After his attempt at a Liam Neeson-esque, late-career action star reinvention in 3 Days To Kill, KC is back in more familiar territory (a sports movie) in Ivan Reitman's football film Draft Day.
Plot In A Paragraph: At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver (KC) has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.
This movie doesn't really do anything for me, I don't think it's to do with my lack of interest in American Football as I enjoy the Burt Reynolds movie The Longest Yard, Any Given Sunday, Rudy and The Waterboy despite not knowing what a first down is. As the title suggests, this is not your typical sports, much less football film. The large cast, which includes the likes of Frank Langella (who normally makes everything better) Jennifer Garner, Chadwick Boseman, Josh Pence, Tom Welling and Ellen Burstyn all get varying amounts of screen time. However, not for nothing does KC stand alone on the film's one- sheet. He is the only reason to see this movie. He is certainly the only reason I made it to the end.