A tad overrated, but still enjoyable

Rating: 7/10 (14 October 2005)

Tom Cruise is Jerry Maquire, a sports agent, who is stupid enough to feel a sense of remorse for seeing the contracts as being the number one prioty and writes an endless Mission statement going on and on about everything wrong with the way things are done, Needless to say he's fired soon afterwords. And needs to start anew, losing his fiancé, and most of his clientèle. The only two that choose to stick by him are a desperately clingy lady just wanted to be loved and a young up & coming conceited black football perspective with a nagging, holier than thou bitch of a wife. While Maqurie rise to the occasion and seize what he has left?
This movie, while being one of Cameron Crowe's lesser works (basically an over-glorified chick flick) is still pretty good and better than Crowe/Cruise's next collaboration (the remake of "Vannila Sky) by far. All of the actors acquit themselves as well as can be expected with the over-sentimentalized script. Plus you can't hate a movie with a young kid who says adorable things, that's why that tactic is used way to often in film. Even though it didn't accomplish the suspected job of making one feel good about oneself in the least bit. A woman so emotionally fragile that a guy only need to come see her and tell her 'Hello" before she crumples on the floor and worships the ground he walks on again? I need to find women like that.
My Grade: B-
2-disc Special Edition DVD Extras: Commentary with director Cameron Crowe and actors Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger and Cuba Gooding Jr.
Disc 2) Video commentary with director Cameron Crowe and actors Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger and Cuba Gooding Jr.; Mock commercial; how to be a sports agent featurette; little over 5 minute Making Of; 5 Deleted scenes with optional commentary; Rehearsal footage with optional commentary; "Secret Garden" music video by Bruce Springsteen; Mission statement; Photo gallery; Cast and crew filmographies; Theatrical trailer; and a trailer for "As Good As It Gets"
DVD-Rom content: Screenplay
Easter Egg: About 6 minutes of the commentary participants goofing off being the commentary starts