Sports movies are sometimes okay to me and this one was just that.

Rating: 7/10 (5 October 2010)

I was not super wild about this movie or highly motivated by this film, but all in all it was rather good and interesting. Sports films just usually do not really pump me up in that the sports scenes, or the scenes depicting the game itself being played look so fake compared to real sports. Still, this one did rather good on those points, and the actually playing of football takes a back seat to all the things the title character had to do to get on the field. The story is simple enough, a good high school football player has dreams of playing for his favorite football team, Notre Dame. So a good football player should get a scholarship, correct? Not in the case of Rudy who is very undersized. Basically, a lot of desire, but not a lot of physical talent. So he does what he can to try and first enroll at Notre Dame and then get onto the football team as a walk on. You get to see the bumps and physical pounding he endures as he basically plays kind of a practice team player, basically a guy who never sees the field, but helps the first and second and third stringers get ready for their games. So it is a bit inspiring to see this guy keep plugging away and trying his best and getting smashed. Even the regular players tell him to take it easy, but he simply tells them he has to go all out to help them prepare. Good sports movie, a genre that is not exactly a favorite, but I have a few I like of which this is one.