InspireGato Film Perfection

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Izzy Adkins The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

anders-arndal First of all, I am very disappointed with peoples reviews in here. People are reviewing it bad because, "it's not for people outside of America.." "It's only for people who likes the nfl.", " It's only for Draft enthusiasts..", etc.. In my opinion, this movie is a fast based story driven movie, that does everything right. I myself, is from Denmark, Europe, and I am very interested in the NFL, and American football. We actually have American football in europe, if people wanna know, and it is actually a big sport in some countries. (france, Big Britain, Germany, Finland, etc.I made it a tradition at home now, to watch this movie, before the NFL draft every year, and last time I did, my girlfriend watched it with me. She isn't much interested in sports, but she gave it a go.. I was telling her she could just go to sleep when she was tired, because the Draft would start at 02:00am here in Denmark. Pretty late on a workday. She gave it a change, and after the first 15 mins of the movie, she was sucked into this new univers of the NFL Draft. The movie is nowhere near Jurassic Park, (a personal favorite of mine..) but I am comparing it with it anyways, because, what Jurassic Park was so good at, was drawing the audience into the movie, to make it so exciting. That is what Draft Day does as well. This is maybe not a 10/10 movie, but I think it desserves some support out of all the bad reviews in here. It doesn't desserve a rating under 7.5. There is BY FAR!! a lot worse movies out there than Draft Day!The Point is, IT IS watchable for people outside of USA, and it IS watchable for people, who isn't that interessted in football, but just wanna watch a good story driven movie! They mind end up getting a passion for football after all!

Floated2 Draft Day (2014) is a film for which is mainly centered for the most avid of sports football fans alike. Being described as a "sports" film but this is technically not a sports film in that it is more so based on the event of the draft than the actual sport of football. Football is mainly very popular in American and the box office numbers of this film very evidently show that, as this film was non- existent in the foreign market (making less than $1 million). This is a main reason why this film has been considered a box office flop since most of the money it made was domestic, and with a considerable large budget of $25 million it was difficult in making back the money. Had this film had a better outing, it most likely would have been greenlit for a sequel as the ending of the film and overall tone suggested a sequel could have happened.About the film, Draft Day is quality in entertainment and the writing is quite well. Centering on Kevin Coaster, portraying a general manager of the Cleveland Browns (a team with many misfortunes within the last decade plus). Draft Day shows the behind the scenes of how much pressure is on the GM as well as the team in making the right choice to better their football team. It plays out somewhat of a documentary but remains entertaining and intriguing due to well thought out subplots and overall interest of the event. Being better than expected, there was a certain level of drama and intrigued throughout and the results did leave audiences well put. Such as we are engaged in the decisions the GM was to make for their team, even though we are not fans of the particularly team. We wanted to know which player Coaster's character would select in the draft, and it was not as predictable as one though, which is a plus. Another good thing is there wasn't any forced cheesy humor that we see a lot in these type of sports drama, this film kept it authentic and it worked. Memorable quote said by Coaster: "No one can stop a ticking clock, the great ones always find a way to slow it down." Overall, since Draft Day did not perform as well as it could have, this film remains for quality avid football fans and is quite underrated at that.

Ed-Shullivan Oh well, this film is nothing special to rave about, but it is a good time waster and although an obvious aging Kevin Costner (62) who like many aging actors choose to color their hair in an unrealistic vanity color has an unrealistic sexual relationship with the much younger Jennifer Garner (44). I guess that was one way the producers were able to secure Costner in the lead role playing Sonny Weaver Jr., the GM for NFL's perennial losers the Cleveland Browns. Ms. Garner plays the teams financial guru Ali, who besides keeping the Browns books straight, Ali has also been keeping Sonny straight to the point that she is carrying his baby. As I said earlier this must have been another vanity project for Kostner as the stud GM porking the much younger and hotter bean counter Ali. I would have found the story line much more interesting and a lot less jaundiced if Kostner's love interest was someone more around his own age, someone like Michelle Pfeiffer, Jamie Lee Curtis or maybe Kim Basinger. I know this is just a sports film but if I am going to watch a film I want to at least feel as if the story line is somewhat realistic.Okay so now that Kostner's irritating vanity has been addressed I could not help but be reminded of the player/agent Jerry Maguire in the film of the same name (Jerry Maguire-1996) played by Tom (snooze) Cruise who stuck by his injured wide receiver Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and so I quickly drew the comparison between Rod Tidwell and that of actor Chadwick Boseman as a college linebacker Vontae Mack. Boseman played his role to perfection not trying to be a scene stealer from the star Kostner but I must say my attention was on Boseman's performance more than anyone else's.It is also difficult for me to believe that competing GM's could actually pull off the scenario on draft day that Cleveland Brown's GM Sonny Weaver Jr. pulled off in this film. I don't want to have to add this as a spoiler but I will end my review with a common statement made by many sportscasters including that made by ESPN's sportscaster Chris Berman who opened up the film and what he should have said was "Come on Man!!!!"

palavitsinis I usually love any movie that is sport related, no matter the sport. This one was not an exception! Kevin Costner, was brilliant as was the remaining of the cast. I loved the countdown to the draft and especially how the movie was really intense during its final moments.A movie well-made with all the personal relationships being in the epicenter of the developments along with the cruel and pragmatic world of the draft. It was amazing to see how this process affects the life of everyone involved. The characters were depicted brilliantly by all actors and especially Kevin Costner and Denis Leary were awesome. A really nice movie to watch, especially if you're a fan of related films, but a movie that is also easy to watch by the non-fanatics, even if they have no clue about the sport itself.