Looks like a movie from a book

Rating: 6/10 (11 October 2009)

The movie looked like a defensive back with too many options to cover, eventually covering none, frozen in place. I couldn't tell what the plot was, beyond being a caricature'd 'day in the life' of big time Texas HS football. The movie wasn't real enough to feel like a documentary, and didn't pull me emotionally into the team enough to qualify as good drama. The main characters, while sympathetic, still weren't particularly likable. This might be the best of the genre, but the genre still doesn't have a Hoosiers equivalent. Oh, and by the way, Div I Class 5A high school football IS really close to that, if less dramatic. A better script could have exploited it better. There really is a story to be told here.