• Starring: Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid
  • Summary: Professional football provides the action-packed backdrop of Oliver Stone's look at contemporary society through the dynamic prism of professional sports. (Warner Brothers)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 32
  2. Negative: 8 out of 32
  1. There's scarcely a scene in which the actors, action and sound track aren't cranked up to maximum intensity.
  2. Reviewed by: David Ansen
    60
    Stone creates such a sizzling, raunchy, vital world that the cliches almost seem new.
  3. 30
    Just watching the trailer for Oliver Stone's new football epic a few weeks back left me with a grating headache; watching the whole sweaty film practically put me in the ICU.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 15
  2. Negative: 2 out of 15
  1. Al Pacino is the highlight, but it rises about the majority of American Football movies. Some of the Oliver Stone overwork is present, but overall a very enjoyable movie. Stay around for the credits. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. KingF.
    4
    The movie starts out with a bang, but falls apart toward the end due to too many plot threads, which leaves you with a lack of understanding of most, if not all, of the characters. It doesn't help that the football action plays more like Madden '06 than a real football game. And this is yet another Pacino performance that he just seems to be mailing in. That still means capability, but you expect more from Pacino than "capable". Expand
    • 1 of 2 users said yes
  3. jefff.
    0
    The MTV style of editing made me sick. Even the football scenes were badly done.If not for the Blair Witch project this would be the worst movie of 99. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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