Don't waste your time on one.

Rating: Null/10 (21 November 2003)

Don't waste your time on this shallow movie. This is one of those movies where the script my have been designed by a committee in a board room of a major movie studio. "Let's get Cruise....oh, and sports are real popular now with the beer drinking public. Plenty of room for product placement if we can get it. Let's put Cruise and Sports in a movie together. Wait, Cruise doesn't play sports. Ok, let's make him an attorney people most like that cause there are lots of attorney shows on TV, no wait, a sports agent. He can yell into the phone he wants more money. Someone come up with a phrase. That's it, "Show me the money". Get someone from the writing pool to knock this thing out. Oh, and put in a little kid with glasses and a single woman he will be insincere with who he stays with out of loyalty cause it is too hard to write sincere romantic heartfelt relationships."
It seems the writer of this film tries to convince people that simply yelling "Show me the money" into the phone is going to get you more money. Cruise plays a sports agent. While that might sound exciting to those 10 year olds that are into football, sports agents are about as exciting as overhearing an attorney talk on the phone about the fine points of a business contract. Since Cruise can't be the sports player in this film, they made him a sports agent. The role of the sports player goes to Cuba Gooding Jr who is directed to act like a buffoon of the likes of Martin Lawrence. This is a sad use of Gooding. He pulls this stupid stunt and for some reason the magic of the offers come in for him as a player. As any 10 year old knows, football is about playing the game and winning it. It is about gaining yards, making touch downs. That and that alone is why big money is paid to sports. Who knows what this movie started out to be and what it ended up being leaves you questioning what is actually happening in this movie. But if you are the type who talk through movies, or watch them typing at the computer, then you won't notice how lame this movie is.