Nothing new here

Rating: 4/10 (16 May 2016)

I just watched the Replacements and I have to say that I was disappointed because there really was nothing new here. If you have seen 'Necessary Roughness' with Scott Bakula, then you know what the quarterback is basically all about and the head coach. If you have seen 'Major League' (I know, baseball, but conceptually the plot is similar) then you understand the bringing together of varying personalities and working through those relationships. Also, if you have seen 'Hoosiers', you may be very disappointed in Gene Hackman. The entire time I was waiting for Norman Dale to come out and start driving the players with toughness. Instead, he was near a smile almost the entire time and appeared to be more ready to give someone a hug than to raise his voice meaningfully. I enjoyed all three of those movies but they were all their own movies. 'The Replacements' seems to want to take the best of all three, combine them, and make something. It didn't work for me.