Any Given Sunday

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Any Given Sunday

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Any Given Sunday

Al Pacino, Ann Margret, Bill Bellamy, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine

Although professional football provides the action-packed backdrop of Any Given Sunday, the film takes a simultaneously epic and intimate look at the men and women who comprise the milieu of the film,...( read more  read more... ) from the modern-day gladiators of the gridiron, their coaches and often beleaguered families, to the moneyed team owners and business concerns who attempt to control the game as big business, to the hungry sports media, and hangers-on trying to get a taste of the glamour.

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  • kiriyamakazou
    March 28, 2009
    kiriyamakazou
    Never before has something I have no interest in, been so exciting. I'm not a real fan of any sport and American Football is something I find mostly dull. Stone manages to create an instantly unforgettable opening. He knows sports movies will only play to a certain crowd, so he d...( read more)ives into the world of football, not just the sport itself. We're taken on a fast and frantic tour. We see the game itself, the commentators, the journalists, the business women, the coaches etc. It makes the game feel so technical and calculated that it really feels like a battle. Over the course of the film we also get glimpses of the medical aspect and even the religious side. The character drama is also present. Every ying has a yang and all sides are represented fairly. The editing and acting are both powerful and used sparingly. The script itself gives enough time to each character and situation and has some excellent dialog. All star cast in an all star film that isn't just for American Football fans.
  • TheMachinist
    February 1, 2009
    TheMachinist
    "Looks like he got damage to his eye."

    I watched this on a Sunday, on the eve of the Superbowl. I'm not a big fan of American football, mainly watched this because of the cast and Oliver Stone. Wish I wouldn't had.

    "Any Given Sunday" is just another basic sports movie, only wor...( read more)se. All of the clichés are here; an injured legend of the game, a young player who thinks his the next big thing in the league, machobullshit player stuff etc.

    For example all the women in the movie are portrayed as cheap bitches who are only after the money. The players have similar interests. Stone got me confused by adding stills and short clips of old games and legendary players. I don't know if he meant it like the game hasn't changed and its all about winning the last game.

    Like in the quote that I put in the beginning, the editing made me feel exactly like that. One of the worst edited films I've ever seen. Short takes with a shaky camera. Just awful. The images are supported with one of the worst soundtracks ever made.

    "On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose."

    Well, I definitely lost. I still have fond memories of Stone. Just wish that I can forget this cliché filled movie.
  • mrpopcorn
    November 28, 2008
    mrpopcorn
    "Life is a contact sport."

    Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino), the head coach of the Miami Sharks, won back-to-back championships four years ago. But new team owner Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz) has little enthusiasm for the finer points of the game and is concerned only with ...( read more)the bottom line. The longtime strongman of Tony's team has been "Cap" Rooney (Dennis Quaid), a 39-year-old quarterback, but Christina balks at renewing his contract. When Cap is injured during a game, third-string rookie quarterback Willie Beamen (Jamie Foxx) goes on in his place and becomes a major star. But Beamen is mostly interested in fame and money, and he has little regard for Tony and his teammates.

    Review
    Despite some great game footage, overacting by everyone from Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz to Oliver Stone himself as a sportscaster render this look at pro football trite and irrelevant.

    An added disappointment is the lack of attention to details that lends a sense of authenticity to most of Oliver Stone's films. When is the last time anyone has seen a pro football coach wearing black blazers on the sideline? Moreover, character development happens because the screenwriter thought it would be cool, not because it was evolved from the story. For example, Jamie Foxx's Willie Beamen goes from a confused humble kid to trash talking homeboy in a matter of minutes.

    All in all, Any Given Sunday is a must to avoid. If you want a great inside look at pro football, rent North Dallas Forty instead.
  • irisheyes686
    August 23, 2008
    irisheyes686
    Good movie! So many good actors in this. Cameron Diaz in particular was very good.
  • danperry17
    July 17, 2008
    danperry17
    By the end - two and a half hours later - I still couldn't really tell if Oliver Stone likes football or not. He did a great job of showing football's grotesques, from the owner's box down to the fans in the stands, and of course Pacino and Quaid took the ball and ran with it (so...( read more) to speak). But how is it that this film can be so evidently ironic, and yet among the favourites of some of the dumbest leatherheads I know? A couple of great performances and some classic Stone action sequences, I guess, but the fact that people can glory in this film astounds me. It's darker than The Program, but it's too glossy for us to notice; and on top of that, the sound mixing is so bad that, if the lines are any good, they're lost in the background noise of the crowd or what have you. I can understand that Stone was going for the same sensory overload he gave us in Platoon, but if his point was to say something about football, ideally, the dialogue would've been audible and not treated like the throwaway lines of every sports movie out there.

    Treating the writing in such a way may prove that even the director didn't know what he was trying to do (or that maybe he was just trying to make an overly dramatized but still cliched sports movie), and it makes me wonder tangentially why these movies that can be said to have "something for everyone" in them are so highly praised. This one flip-flops from one direction to the other, and all in all it's a tough one to stick with. Every time you want to turn it off something just a little bit too interesting happens. It just barely passes, and a great performance by Pacino (one of his last before becoming essentially a cartoon character) goes to waste. Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz are both underwhelming, and though the former was on his way up, the latter was already declining... but hey, there is that famous Pacino pre-game speech!
  • studmuffin0681
    November 19, 2009
    studmuffin0681
    At the 50-yard line of this gridiron cosmos is Tony D'Amato, tthe embattled Sharks coach facing a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new, marketing-savvy Sharks owner who's sure Tony is way too Old School.

    An injured quarterback, a flashy, bull-headed QB, a slithery team docto...( read more)r and a running back with an incentive-laden contract also provide some of the stories that zigzag like diagrams in a playbook.

    stars Cameron Diaz, Al Pacino, Ann Margret, Bill Bellamy, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Matthew Modine, Jamie Foxx and LL Cool J.

    directed by Oliver Stone.
  • dukeakasmudge
    October 29, 2009
    dukeakasmudge
    The best movie about football Ive ever seen
  • HateYouIgnorant
    October 29, 2009
    HateYouIgnorant
    !Comercial or Stupid! :|
  • javaursula128
    October 20, 2009
    javaursula128
    That's a team, gentlemen, and either, we heal, now, as a team,or we will die as individuals. That's football guys, that's all it is.
  • Topsie11
    October 17, 2009
    Topsie11
    Not being a fan of American Football ..I wasn't sure what to expect, however with the cast involved I thought I'd give it a go..Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino) struggles to keep his job and to keep his team of athletes from falling apart.. dont waste a great opportunity thats the messag...( read more)e...The movie is brutal and direct to the point it had me captivated from beginning to end..if you're obsessive about sport then it's a must-watch.
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