Scene for scene remake of the 1974 original

Rating: 8/10 (30 January 2008)

In fact it's almost a character for character and word for word remake. Not that that's bad. The original was a great movie and now it's been done again with modern stars like adam sandler and chris rock. They even found a 7 feet tall muscle-bound giant to play the Richard Kiel part - and they made him up to facially resemble Kiel.!! There's a lot of attempted humor in the show but i didn't find the movie particularly funny. This is a good movie because the story is so good. Bunch of crazy convicts play a football game against a team of vicious prison guards. The game comes at the end of the movie and takes up a good half hour and is a thriller.
Adam Sandler is the star and i've never liked him because he reminds me of the young Jerry Lewis, something like a monkey on speed. But in this show he's a level-headed guy and it works.