My All American (2015)

Touches You

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Awesome! Great performance by Finn Wittrock... Based on true story. If you want to spend quality time you should watch this wonderful film.

"We would not have been national champions if you had not been on that field." Freddie Steinmark (Wittrock) is a tremendous football player, but was always told he was too small to play for a major college. When Texas coach Darrell Royal (Eckhart) recruits him, Freddie works harder than anyone on the team and finally earns a starting job. In the midst of a run at the National Championship season Freddie's knee begins to bother him. When he sees the doctor his life, and the legacy of Texas football is changed forever. I am a huge fan of sports movies, especially ones that are true. This one took awhile for me to get invested in, but when I did I really got into it. This is not one of the best sports movies I have ever seen, but it is very much worth seeing and I do highly recommend it. The movie has great sports scenes as well as a very emotional arc that can only be true, this isn't something you can make up. Sports movie fans will really like this, and this is actually a decent family movie. It is rated PG, but some of the subject matter may need to be explained. Overall, a very good movie that I recommend. Not one of the best sports movies ever made, but a very good addition to the genre. I give this a high B.

I'm not kidding. This film starts in like 1960. There is a friendship and invitation that evolves out of high school...in which to a big surprise is shown to the larger of the two football players. The natural effects that have captured these guys faces as well as those CREASE marks on the leading ladies upper lips under her nostrils are remarkable. I saw matt damon and james marsden in the smaller hard training qb playing Steinmart. when the movie started, I was like, aw man....and when the movie progressed into the Cotton Bowl I guess 10 years later.....the story was about a tumor that had developed in one of the Coaches players.at the 1/2 hour before this movie ends we learn that...giving the audience a 1/2 hour to wrap it up.....whereas, unlike Rudy and this famous coach I've never heard of....I cant express the facts that its inspired or is actually autobiographical plus narrated by the old coach who in turn is being interviewed by a WOMAN..nudging him with footnotes

I'm not sure about a spoiler warning for this one...it's akin to reviewing Titanic and letting it slip that the boat sinks.In the end Freddy dies, there's no sugar coating that. I was in high school at the time. I have a vivid memory of him on crutches at the '70 Cotton Bowl. A heartbreaking and inspiring story, which the movie fails to capture.When I heard they were filming in San Antonio, I took time off work to go be some small part of the story that touched me as a 15 year old HS football player. We sat in 100 degree heat in jackets and sweaters, crew went over our dress with a fine tooth comb, looking for authenticity. No watches, or shoes or hats that were not time period correct.Then I see the movie (along with 7 other people for a 7:45pm start) and the CGI of the stadiums is horrid. You'll see better in Saturday morning kids cartoons. Yes, I saw that picture in DKR's office with the west side upper deck in it, how'd ya miss that? Here's another news flash, DKR was not blonde...ya couldn't afford a bottle of black hair dye? The make-up for "old" Darrell was horrific, perhaps the worst effort at aging a character I've ever seen, and I'm OLD.The face-masks were all wrong...ALL wrong. How can you spend hours looking for Nikes and not 5 minutes on something as obvious as a face-mask? So much, so wrong, but rest assured, when that camera pans a stadium full of extras, not one of us was wearing a digital watch or a pair of Reeboks.The script was disappointingly cheesy. The dialogue was campy and stifled. I was afraid of this knowing the writer's previous work on Rudy and Hoosiers, 2 horrid and over-rated little films.On the other side...the cast was pretty good, Finn & Sarah especially, even tho this pivotal relationship, despite extensive screen time together, seemed superficial and under developed.In the end, I cried, not because of Freddy's plight, but that such a poignant and inspiring story had been so poorly done.