Too Bad The Actors Didn't Go On Strike

Rating: 2/10 (2 June 2001)

I think that Gene Hackman is a fine actor. How anyone convinced him to get involved with this turkey is beyond me.
When I heard about this movie I actually thought that a movie based - even loosely, as this one definitely is - on the NFL players strike of a few years ago might be interesting. I still do. It's just that this one wasn't. The thing played out like a comic book, full of characters who I'm sure insulted the integrity of those who were the real replacement players a few years back - and I haven't even mentioned the strippers who took over as cheerleaders? (This was a part of the strike I must have missed!). There were a handful of humourous moments, but nothing really uproarious (except perhaps the "we're the guards" shoot-up outside the stadium, as replacement players and strikers confronted each other.) The movie was marred even more by a boringly predictable plot, with an ending that was telegraphed at least an hour before the movie came to an end.
The best I can come up with for this one is a 2/10.