When the Game Stands Tall

The movie is a winner and leaves you feeling refreshed. I hope all my friends get to experience this movie.

Great football flic.

Don't get me wrong it's definitely not perfect and some acting isn't great but it has just enough for me to keep me interested

Very touching, down to earth in what life really is and what it means.

Minha opinião: Um filme tocante de fé. Mas não é um filme #Cristão porém não deixa a fé de lado. Em vários momentos são comentados e sentimos sim um fundo bíblico na historia. E como vários filmes do gênero, a diferença aqui, que não se trata de uma historia triste e eles se superam. Aqui eles já são vencedores a muitos anos e até os adversários não querem competir com eles. E aqui ocorre que seu técnico Bob sofre um infarto e isso faz ele rever pontos da forma como ele sempre liderou sua equipe. Principalmente que são invencíveis, que não podem perder, mas eles estavam perdendo a sua identidade como ser humano e que há momentos na vida que existem derrota e que derrota não é o fim do mundo, mas sim aprendizado para a sua formação. Tanto que isso é testado na vida dos jogadores, pais e do próprio técnico em suas vidas. E que os jogadores são tocados a entenderem isso, pais são tocados a entender isso. E no final o técnico também é tocado entender e viver isso. Uma boa atuação dos atores e que tras esta mensagem diferente neste filme. Roteiro e enredo bom e tras uma visão diferente neste filme. Vale apena assistir? Sim, para toda família. Nota: 8

It's a workmanlike picture but so cliched and lacking in an identity to distinguish itself from all the other sports dramas. A film centered on a remarkable true story shouldn't slump this much.

This is a garbage movie. A two year old could have directed it better. Total waste of time.

There are so many better written stories with the same plot. The cast is good but they can't do much with the hackneyed script.

It doesn’t feel like it should be that difficult to make a solid inspirational football film. There are plenty of them out there already, and the sport is rife with possibilities for big moments. I’m also a big fan of football, so I’m inclined to enjoy any movie that focuses on it. That’s why it puzzles me when I watch a movie like When the Game Stands Tall, and feel so bored. For starters, we’re talking about a movie that STARTS with a coach that has managed to lead his high school team to an impressive 151-game winning streak over the span of a decade. Yet our story won’t be about the momentous record, instead it will be about the kids who lost in order to end the streak. You’d think any good screenwriter would find out about this kind of success, and want to build a movie around that. Instead they start with a team that’s already on top, and expect us to care when they fall from grace. But there’s still something to work with in this concept, because the movie knocks them down at the start, and you can make a decent story about a group of losers who have to crawl their way back. Even though I thought the choice of when to set the film was stupid, it still could have worked. The problem is they don’t do a good job of creating characters to root for in When the Game Stands Tall. We get to meet some of the players, but I never felt they allowed us to connect with any of them enough to care about their journey. Some of them have little subplots, but I wasn’t interested in most of them, and I don’t think they did a good job of connecting their stories off the field to their play on the field (aside from one kid looking to set a record, because they had to hammer that one home a ton.) It seems the movie has some slight grounding in faith or religion because we hear scripture referenced a few times. This is ironic since the movie seems to worship the coach Bob Ladouceur with much greater reverence than Jesus. The coach is raised up on a pedestal, and treated as some type of idol. It’s too bad that Jim Caviezel appears so disinterested in his performance. I don’t know if the real coach is super mellow and Caviezel was trying to match his demeanor, but I swear he looked as bored as I was with the film. I always get pumped up for some good football scenes, so there was some fun to be had with When the Game Stands Tall, but otherwise it was overly bland.

I think this movie teaches people that when your out there on the field doing football is not about winning it's about working hard being a team