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With Any Given Sunday, Oliver Stone has created the most hard-hitting, top-notch film about sports in recent years, with stylish direction and great performances all around. A movie with such versatile qualities, even for those who don't like sports, will take them on a high speed ride. The prominent director decided to use the same style as he used in his previous, underappreciated films like Natural Born Killers and U-Turn.
The over-the-top direction, stylish, jittery camerawork and raunchy soundtrack has led some renowned U.S. critics to call the movie a shameless MTV music video rip-off and even a nonsensical TV commercial.
But the result is an exhilarating, if not chaotic, in-your-face portraya of the bloody sport.
The premise about a proud rising sports star and a coach trying to make his team win back the game, however, sounds familiar. But Stone's sure-handed direction makes the difference. Interesting characters develop nicely, including an Armani-wearing player, Julian, played by rapper LL. Cool J., a weasel orthopedist of the team played by James Woods and doubting quarterback Cap Rooney played by Dennis Quaid.
Fine performances from well-known actors also highlight the film, including those of Matthew Modine and veteran Charlton Heston. Stone keeps the more than two-and-a-half-hour duration tense and never boring. Everything moves so fast and every second is accounted for, just like in the sport itself.
When the film slows down and ear-throbbing music changes to slower music, including American Indian chanting, the movie is at its most tense. Stone uses all kinds of unusual camera angles and rapid editing to give the strongest impact to audiences.
One should be forewarned, however, that this film is not for very young viewers. Locker room scenes are full of male nudity. The scenes on the football field are so vicious and include an eyeball being poked out of its socket. This is another example of a one-eye scenario which is higlighted in a lot of hollywood movies, portraying the Freemason movement(which stone is famous for)
Coach Tony D'Amato's character says in the film: "On any given Sunday, you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is: can you win or lose like a man?"
This film certainly is a winner, so if you like fast pace, highly tense movie, this one is for you. Put your helmet on, baby!
Nuff said about the film, the DVD is full packed with a lot extras as well. You've got loads of deleted/extended scenes, commentary from Oliver Stone and Jamie Foxx, music only track, Documentary Full Contact: The Making of Any Given Sunday, 3 Music Videos, Jamie Foxx Audition Tape and Screen Tests, Stills gallery and Outtakes/Gag Reel(one of my favourites!) It is also enhanced with features for DVD-ROM with web events, links, original scripts and the list goes on.
So, head down straight to your local dvd shop or buy one online now!
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I can't agree more, what a great film.
I've got the single disc version but I believe there is a double DVD version coming out soon or it may already be out.
Connoisseur_Haggler 13.12.2000 19:51
Sounds like a lot of interactive features and benefits to get this on DVD!! good opinion.
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all its ferocity and cynicism, is as soft-centred and clichéd as anyRocky-style underdogs-make-good crowd-pleaser. The Miami Sharks have lost threegames in a row a...
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Director's Cut, containing previously unseen footage. Life is a contact sport and football ... more
is life when three-time Academy Award winning filmmaker Oliver Stone and a dynamic acting ensemble explore the fortunes of the Miami Sharks in 'Any Given Sunday'...
Advantages: Strong performances, excellent musical accompaniment,Highly engrossing Disadvantages: Predictable, and sometimes ponderous narrative,Subject matter may put some people off
Advantages: Storming cinematography, strong pace, great acting Disadvantages: might not like it as its about American Football, script a littel lacking compared to the other parts of the film
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Dec 13th, 2000
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