ANY GIVEN SUNDAY

1999
OLIVER STONE

Bang! Crunnch! Cut to lightning again. Whamm! Cue music video. O.K., give me the gratuitous gore shot--hell, I don't care if no football player ever had their eyeball knocked out, just do it! Hold camera on me and Jimmy Johnson in the booth. All right, cut to some Cameron bitch-goddess strutting, and straight into Al's Big Speech #11 and this time I need cameo reaction shots from at least 6 grizzled NFL retirees, and fill out the frame with some monster lineman full frontals. No pain no gain better leave it all on the field sixguns blazing apocalypse now sweetheart.

So, yes, Oliver exhales with characteristic noise and force into the ragged sails of the ol' Big Game movie, and Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, and Coach Pacino mostly rise to the occasion, with performances good enough to back into the playoffs, but not to make it to the Show.