All around great football movie

Rating: Null/10 (8 December 2004)

'Remember the Titans' is one of many football movies put out but breaks the natural cycle of football movies. With the exception of the recently released 'Friday Night Lights', 'Remember' is one of only a few football movies that is based on true events and happenings. With an exceptional cast, Denzel Washington, Nicole Ari Parker, and Will Patton, this movie reaches far beyond that of normal football movies as the cast actually trained for and competed in the film's game and practice scenes. The ability for the cast to both know how to play the game and know how to act at the same time, creates a feel that the boys playing in the game on the screen are actually the boys who played in real life. Their ability to both act and play created a dynamic friendship between the players that helped transfer to their friendships on screen making it more than believable, it made it almost real. I believe this movie to be one of the more better made football movies in a great long while, with the exception of 'Varsity Blues'. I feel that the emotion put out by the actors created and held the audience's attention as they battled through hardship after hardship. Overall, this movie ranks an eight out of ten for realism and entertainment.