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Any Given Sunday

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Any Given Sunday (1999)

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Reviews Counted:115

Fresh:56

Rotten:59

Average Rating:5.5/10

Consensus: Sometimes entertaining, but overall Any Given Sunday is a disappointment coming from Oliver Stone.

Runtime: 2 hrs 58 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Oliver Stone delves into his love-hate relationship with pro football in this high-impact film, thriving on the game's adrenaline rush while revealing its ultimate corruption. When legendary Miami... Oliver Stone delves into his love-hate relationship with pro football in this high-impact film, thriving on the game's adrenaline rush while revealing its ultimate corruption. When legendary Miami Sharks quarterback Cap Rooney (Dennis Quaid) is badly injured in a game, coach Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino) is forced to reach deep into his bench for Willie Beamen (Jamie Foxx). The third-stringer's injury-plagued career and difficulty with maintaining focus make him a dubious commodity at best. But Beamen, aware of what this opportunity could mean, starts playing at a much higher level than ever before, planting championship hopes in the minds of Miami fans. The extraordinary success of Beamen, an athlete whose flamboyance contradicts everything the Lombardi-like D'Amato believes about the game, makes the coach wonder whether his time is passing. To add to his problems, Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz), a young woman who has inherited ownership of the team from her late father, is pressuring him to win now, and at any cost. Will D'Amato be able to pull the team together for a final run at the championship? The film conveys a vivid sense of the atmosphere of pro football and features a finely modulated performance by Pacino. [More]

Starring: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx

Starring: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J, James Woods, Matthew Modine, Ann-Margret, Bill Bellamy, Elizabeth Berkley, Jim Caviezel, Aaron Eckhart, Charlton Heston, Lauren Holly, John C. McGinley, Lela Rochon, Lawrence Taylor

Director: Oliver Stone

Director: Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: Oliver Stone, John Logan
Producer: Dan Halsted, Lauren Shuler Donner, Oliver Stone, Clayton Townsend
Composer: Richard Horowitz

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Reviews for Any Given Sunday

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Hit and miss, certainly, but intense stuff.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
08/22/08
Channel 4 Film
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A meathead burlesque.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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Despite the film's multifarious faults, which also include a truly rotten cameo from Stone himself as a sports commentator, there can be no argument that this is one of the most visually exciting experiences you will have this year...

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
05/03/01
Clark Collis
Clark Collis
Empire Magazine
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Any Given Sunday may fall on its face a few times during the game, but wouldn't you rather watch a team going recklessly for the touchdown than playing safely for time?

Full Review Source: Sight and Sound | comment Comment
04/17/01
Mark Kermode
Mark Kermode
Sight and Sound

Any Given Sunday is content to document, observe and convey. While it does all these things well, a little more passion would not have gone amiss.

Full Review Source: UK Critic | comment Comment
01/01/00
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
UK Critic

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 Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
02/10/09
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

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

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
01/26/09
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

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Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
10/18/08
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

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.

Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | comment Comment
08/22/08
Richard Schickel
Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine
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You'd have to be a very undiscriminating football die-hard to get anything out of it.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
07/23/07
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

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 Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

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

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
03/28/06
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
04/09/05
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

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.

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04/16/04
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Loud, long and exhausting.

Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
05/22/03
Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather

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05/20/03
Leonard Schwarz
Leonard Schwarz
Palo Alto Weekly

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

Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | comment 1 Comment
02/08/03
John R. McEwen
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online

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

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
01/16/03
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

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 Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
Chris Gore
Chris Gore
Film Threat

The cast does an impressive job.

Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | comment Comment
10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer
 
 
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