Draft Day (2014)

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

At the NFL Draft, General Manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams. Draft Day is definitely quite the sports film and stars Kevin Costner (The Bodyguard), Jennifer Garner (Daredevil) and Chadwick Boseman (Avengers: Infinity War). The movie is directed by Ivan Reitman (Kindergarten Cop, Twins, Junior, Ghostbusters I & II) and it was definitely way better than it gets credit for. The acting was really good, the dramatic aspect quite excellent and i even got sentimental at one point, definitely recommending it. (10/10)

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!

Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Kevin Costner's filmography in order, I come to his third movie of 2014. Draft Day After his attempt at a Liam Neeson-esque, late-career action star reinvention in 3 Days To Kill, KC is back in more familiar territory (a sports movie) in Ivan Reitman's football film Draft Day. Plot In A Paragraph: At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver (KC) has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.This movie doesn't really do anything for me, I don't think it's to do with my lack of interest in American Football as I enjoy the Burt Reynolds movie The Longest Yard, Any Given Sunday, Rudy and The Waterboy despite not knowing what a first down is. As the title suggests, this is not your typical sports, much less football film. The large cast, which includes the likes of Frank Langella (who normally makes everything better) Jennifer Garner, Chadwick Boseman, Josh Pence, Tom Welling and Ellen Burstyn all get varying amounts of screen time. However, not for nothing does KC stand alone on the film's one- sheet. He is the only reason to see this movie. He is certainly the only reason I made it to the end.

First of all don't confuse this for a "Sports" movie.It revolves around the NFL Draft, an annual event where the NFL managers are selecting players to join their teams.It is a USA football thing, so if you are living in another continent, it is rather difficult to understand the rules and even more the point of this whole charade.About the rules is something of a Poker game. At least as it looks in this picture. The manager of team A is on the phone with the manager of team B and they talk things like "I am giving you 2 of my first picks of the second round to give me your first pick for the next 2 years..." and so on.Again, this is NOT about who wins a game or a trophy. This is merely about picking players whom you think they might be useful to your team. In the actual games they may proved to be bad choices, or injured or whatever, and despite being happy about your choices in the NFL draft, eventually to lose games and the season.Now as movie "Draft Day" is carefully designed.The direction and editing are trying to be "edgy" with unique split screen effects during the numerous phone-calls between the team managers. You can see for example Kevin Costner (who plays the lead role as an experienced yet unconventional manager) in a split screen walking into the other side of the frame where the manager of the other team is.The music has a certain triumphant feeling without being to much in your face and the whole production is carefully designed.I point that out because in this movie you have constantly the feeling that you are seeing great things taking place. Like every little decision is something that could change the world. But in reality all these "decisions" are something of a micromanagement. In the end and if you actually pay attention, what is happening and what the characters are talking about is totally uninteresting......and for the rest of the world, outside the US, confusing and pointless.