The Vidiot Reviews...

Rating: 5/10 (25 August 2014)

Draft Day
The upside to getting a concussion is that you don't remember losing the championship game.
Losing, however, is not on the agenda of the general manager in this drama.
Determined to bring a hot prospect to Cleveland, upstart GM Sonny Weaver (Kevin Costner) trades the Brown's first-round draft pick for the next three years for a shot at the phenom.
While the move impresses the team's owner (Frank Langella), it riles up the coach (Denis Leary), current QB (Tom Welling), and team's attorney (Jennifer Garner) - who is pregnant with Sonny's child.
Although it offers a gutsy glimpse into the pressures of picking a million-dollar player, Ivan Reitman's sentimental salute to gridiron suffers from needless melodrama that deflates the swelling sense of tension.
Furthermore, splicing classic football games into the narrative is sophomoric and ultimately distracting.
Incidentally, overrated NFL draft picks tend to have a bright future...in the CFL.
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