Movie was okay

Rating: Null/10 (7 October 2004)

I am a huge football fan, attended Permian and really wanted the movie to be great. I loved the book (warts and all). I just saw the premier in Odessa and, quite frankly, was disappointed. The acting was great (especially surprised that Tim McGraw did so well) but I didn't feel that the story line was well enough developed. On the other hand, the football series where extremely well done. Alan Graf did a great job with the football scenes. I would give the movie a B-. In general, it was an okay movie, but not nearly as good as the book. Derek Luke did an excellent job. Billy Bob Thornton was great as was Garrett Hedlund. I think the problem was the director, Peter Berg (he also wrote the screen play). It could have been a better, deeper movie. Would love to hear other opinions....