Any Given Sunday Reviews

Stone isn't interested in merely bashing modern football: Any Given Sunday looks at the best and worst of the sport. [Blu-ray]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

...it's hard to tell if Stone was making a serious sports movie here or a parody of a sports movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

Almost three hours of this jitter deteriorates from bravura filmmaking to annoying mannerism, and Any Given Sunday ends up less than the sum of its many, often interesting parts.

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Hit and miss, certainly, but intense stuff.

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You'd have to be a very undiscriminating football die-hard to get anything out of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

With few surprises and little to say in this film, it is unclear why Oliver Stone was interested in making it in the first place.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

A meathead burlesque.

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Stone's hilariously broad and belabored critique of American sports culture ...

Full Review | Original Score: 74/100

This isn't the best film by Oliver Stone, but it is a first-rate job nonetheless.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Os excessos visuais de Stone (tão bem utilizados em seus trabalhos anteriores) e o fraco terceiro ato, mais conveniente do que o apropriado, comprometem o resultado final.

| Original Score: 3/5

Loud, long and exhausting.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Any Given Sunday doesn't disappoint from an acting standpoint; with a cast like this it could hardly miss.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A solidly-acted action-drama hybrid whose cartoonish asides largely undermine the greater subtext.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Ultimately, Any Given Sunday will disappoint football fans and won't win any new converts to the game, and worse, is just a painful film to watch

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The cast does an impressive job.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

...the movie remains watchable if only for Pacino's amazing performance and the action-packed football sequences.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Never has so much talent been wasted in such cinematic chaos.

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Oliver Stone's take on the world of pro football scores a few field goals, but is extremely short of a touchdown.

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When pressed to say what has changed football from an all-American game into the sleazy business it is today, Stone feebly points a finger at television as the culprit, then wriggles away from the question.

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Amidst all the drama, there are comedic moments, such as the Sharks' version of the self-congratulatory end zone dance the Dirty Bird, the metal-vs.-rap locker room debate and the loose crocodile in the shower.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5