Looks like Tarzan, plays like Jane......

Rating: 7/10 (2 October 2014)

It's draft day, and as general manager of the Cleveland Browns, Sonny is forced to come up with a big move.
After trading for the number one pick, Sonny has to choose between a lower-ranked linebacker with a questionable past or a celebrated quarterback with a questionable future.
All the while, Sonny is walking in the footsteps of his father and personal complications force their way to the surface.......
Now I don't have the first clue about the NFL, or as it's called here in the UK, American Football. Come to think about it, I don't know the first thing about football, or as it's called across the Atlantic, soccer.
But there's a thing with me and sports movies, they follow this by the book tick box that make them work.
First off you have to have someone who is on there last chance. Secondly, there has to be a love interest, who too loves the same sport. There has to be a family history with the said sport. And of course, you have to have that very tense, against the clock scene right near the end, where the main character swears.
Don't forget your support. We always get the angry coach who shouts a lot, the boss who threatens everyone with the sack, and of course the players. One will always be charming, and one will always be overconfident.
This ticks all these boxes, but what makes it just that little better is Costner, of whom I am a huge fan, and he's been in more sports films than Jackmans been in X-Men films.
It doesn't offer anything new, but its a solid drama that hits all the right spots, and when you realise that this was directed by the guy who gave us Ghostbusters, the curiosity just gets the better of you.
Go on, look at the poster of Costner holding the football, smug as anything, and not get a little excited....