Not even Denzel could save this one for me

Rating: Null/10 (28 March 2003)

I didn't like this film, not because it was "Disney drivel", as I usually immensely enjoy nearly all Disney films (more particularly the animated ones and live-action of old), but because it was thoroughly predictable and didn't really tell a new story. Of course, it's not a true story (it never said it was, it said it was BASED on a true story), but it felt played and tiresome. I like moral movies that have football in them, but this was a football movie with a touch of morality in it (the same reasons The Rookie didn't really work for me and many I know, but substitute football for baseball). *Yawn* The real reasons I didn't enjoy this had to do with the Sunshine character and his gratuitous kiss with the captain of the football team, but I won't go much into that. I hate when people use these reviews as podiums to voice their outrageous and unfounded opinions. All in all, Denzel Washington (who I find acts identical in nearly every role, with the exception of facial hair or the occasional fro) couldn't even save this movie for me. I thought the daughter of the coach was the best part.
2.3/10 for a SLIGHT glimmer of a moral message.