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6.0 out of 10

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  3. Negative: 2 out of 5

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  1. Jim
    Jul 5, 2002
    10
    Best football movie ever!
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  2. PatC.
    Dec 15, 2003
    3
    Starts out promising but deteriorates rapidly. One may find the meaning of life by playing football, but this movie falsely reports the meaning is found by winning the big game. Miss Davis would have made the movie a frolic if the movie hadn't portrayed itself as realistic. And the police attitude is Aw Shucks when their patrol car is stolen for a joyride, simply because the team is winning? Well, this movie isn't. QB Moxon may presume to be a hero at the end of this film, but in real life anyone who smashes his father in the face with a football will need years of reflection and possible therapy before presuming to approach anything genuinely heroic. Also, I don't believe a character as strong as Voight would simply drop off the screen at the climax. His part was mis-written, and the redemption he could have brought to the story was pissed away. … Expand
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  3. MelvinG.
    Feb 21, 2005
    10
    The movie is the best ever made by MTV. Jon Voight plays a strong role. It had everything in it, sports, girls, music, humor, drama, and suspense. I believe all of that adds up to a pretty good movie.
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Metascore
50 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 20
  3. Negative: 2 out of 20
  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    70
    A paint-by-numbers story that offers no surprises and a hero and villain etched in white and black with few shades of gray.
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  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    50
    We are aware going in that Varsity Blues' cannot be a landmark of world cinema. Yet working within the tired formula, the picture turns out to be not so bad.
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  3. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: M.V. Moorhead
    60
    Originally, somebody may have wanted the film to be a serious exploration of the dark side of high school sports, but it ended up as just one more sports picture.
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