Any Given Sunday: Review By Rezahn

Meet Oliver Stone, practitioner of smash-mouth film-making
  • OVERALL
    5.0
    SUPERB
  • Story
  • Acting
  • Directing
  • Visuals
The brutal game sequences, combined with a thumping soundtrack you feel in your stomach, should make AGS's target audience drool. Watching this film, you get an overwhelming sense of exactly what it's like to be staring up at 6-foot-6, 300 lb. linebacker while 80,000 people roar in the stands. The visual razzle-dazzle embroils us in its kinetic, cynical, brutal, commercial and entertaining progression marked with Stones signiture cinematography trademark for detail.

There's no shortage of color and vigor in this pumped-up movie. A manic, visceral cacophony of sights and sounds -- and as close as you're ever gonna get to playing pro football, this is a hardcore football flick, not some mushy tale with football as a backdrop. One of the few football movies that really puts you in the action, conveying the ferocity and trauma of the game, yep, it's that kind of a movie, and if you know what you're getting into, it's unlikely you'll be bored.

Any Given Sunday's a pumped up ensemble piece in a boiling sea of adrenaline, testosterone (with estrogen in the back office), and pain during the Sunday Gladiatorial spectacle of American football. Great Movie to Watch, guaranteed.

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Comments (3)

  1. Dan

    I can agree with that, just for a football movie it was long :)

    2 years agoby @dan1Flag

  2. Rezahn

    I found every part of it as intriguing as the last actually. For me the script was written in such a way where each scene revealed a piece of the storyline that added to its plot, one aspect which kept me interested to know what was going to happen next during the course of the film.

    2 years agoby @rezahnFlag

  3. Dan

    I enjoyed Any Given Sunday. Decent football movie. But it went on for a bit too long.

    2 years agoby @dan1Flag