We Are Marshall has little of the bone-crunching sincerity of the recent pigskin rouser Invincible. This one is more like Unconvincing.
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12/13/06
We Are Marshall (2006)
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Reviews Counted:124
Fresh:60
Rotten:64
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Matthew McConaughey almost runs We Are Marshall to the end zone, but can't stop it from taking the easy, feel-good route in memorializing this historic event in American sports.
Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In November 1970, a plane carrying almost the entire Marshall University football team, its staff and fans crashed, killing 75 people in all and devastating the small town of Huntington, West... [More]
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, David Strathairn, Matthew Fox, Huntley Ritter
Director: McG
Reviews for We Are Marshall
It's a movie for football fans in the midst of baseball season.
12/15/06
Bright spots can't get at the script's failure to make this into a story about something bigger than sports, in the way Invincible, Miracle and Go Tigers did.
12/21/06
This was undeniably a horrific event for the victims' families friends, colleagues as well as for the entire community. But the movie seems to almost exploit this tragedy so it can make audiences weep, and ultimately, cheer.
12/22/06
Syrupy, vapid, unfocused.
12/21/06
An authentic and specific story of grit and grace in the face of tragedy has been Hollywoodized--or more properly, bastardized. A shame, indeed.
12/20/06
Doesn't score any touchdowns in the emotion department.
12/18/06
It looks like every inspirational sports movie we've seen in the last five years.
12/22/06
...begins with a politely observed time of mourning and then gets on to the business of triumph, even if the movie has to invent it.
12/21/06
Takes in all the usual football movie clichés, and then adds to them a lot of vague emotional flailing.
12/12/06
The results feel like a high-minded TV film (there are even places in its structure for the eventual insertion of commercials).
12/20/06
A better film would have acknowledged the limits of sport and discovered that when you're in mourning all you can do is distract yourself, either by hard work (on the part of the surviving teammates) or meaningless entertainment (the fans).
12/22/06
We Are Marshall isn't about grief or loss, but how these things can be overcome. It's uplifting, but shallow.
12/22/06
mirrors every other football flick we've recently seen
12/21/06
The movie certainly has its heart in the right place, but that alone just isn't enough.
12/20/06
We Are Marshall is the most insidious kind of bad movie - the very well made kind.
12/21/06
We Are Marshall is precisely what one expects from a true sports story: it's uplifting and inspiring.
12/19/06
A depressingly mechanical sports drama that seems not to have been written and directed so much as home assembled, Ikea-style, by pictorial instruction.
12/21/06
The season's glossiest stand-up-and-cheer sit-down-and-cry movie experience.
12/22/06
Reaches for inspiration but finds mediocrity.
12/26/06
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