Not Great

Rating: 3/10 (29 August 2007)

I heard a lot about this movie before seeing it so perhaps my expectations were a bit high, however, I wasn't all that thrilled by it. First of all, the "racist" angle was a bit overplayed every time the situations arose. I realize the main theme of the story was about overcoming racism but to pound it into us and exaggerate every such instance made it obvious there was a small hint of an agenda here by the producers. Game action was poor, especially the title game. Most annoying was the announcer: "passes to Smith, over to Jones, etc. etc." ad nauseam. Were they that bad back in the 60's??? Jon Voight as Adolph Rupp did a very poor job or the direction in his scenes (esp. the team huddles) was just bad. The whole title game had a cheesy feel to it. Very disappointed.