A moving story from the days of segregation that focuses on common ground of high school football.

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 2000)

As Bruckheimer films go, this was something that was a stretch from his usual "Action Packed/Cinematographer friendly" film formula. The usual dose of "eye candy" was evident in some of the slow motion scenes, but it didn't rule over the film. What did was the strong emotion each scene garnered from the audience. Washington is his usual self, putting on a wonderful performance as Coach Boone, and after several years in the film industry Will Patton is finally getting the parts that make his "villainous-bit-part" past a distant memory (i.e. "The Postman"). Trevor Rabin scores the perfect music to the scenes that need it - action and emotion alike. Some of the actors were fitting to play the parts of the players... Wood Harris as Julian finally broke into the big time with his role as a team leader along with Ryan Hearst as Bertier, neither will see any starring roles in the near future, but both should see scripts coming their way for supporting roles. This motion picture allows the audience to run the full spectrum of emotions (a very seldom occurence with any Bruckheimer produced film), but Boaz Yakim shines in this presentation of a Remember the Titans - don't get comfortable Boaz I still remember your other films: The Rookie, The Punisher and most recently From Dusk 'Til Dawn 2... you need to create some more quality pictures before I nominate you for a Best Director Academy Award. Regardless, this is a quality film with a quality cast, the producer and director maybe suspect (at best), but turn out this quality peace of celluloid that will the masses with football on the brain - go figure... it that time of year!