Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Very Cool!!!

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Leatherheads is billed as a comedy. Which makes the fact that the film is not particularly funny problematic. So who to blame? Well the star of the film is George Clooney. The film was directed by George Clooney. And the way George Clooney tells it George Clooney pretty much wrote the whole thing too. So whatever failings the film has are going to be laid at Clooney's feet. And there certainly are enough failings to make this, at best, a mediocre film. And that might be generous. Movie star Clooney does a reasonably good job. It's too bad writer/director Clooney didn't give movie star Clooney better material to work with.This is an attempt at screwball comedy centered around the world of professional football in the 1920s. In that time period pro football was pretty much a joke, college football was king. Clooney plays Dodge Connelly, aging star of the Duluth Bulldogs. The Bulldogs, like every other team of the era, are a ragtag bunch and the team is in danger of going out of business. So Dodge hatches a scheme and somehow convinces Carter "the Bullet" Rutherford to join the Bulldogs. Carter is the most successful and popular college football star of the day and a war hero to boot. Instantly the Bulldogs go from playing in front of crowds of a few dozen to playing before tens of thousands of fans. Maybe this pro football thing will catch on after all.Carter's joining the Bulldogs is not without complications. The biggest complication comes in the form of Chicago Tribune reporter Lexie Littleton who has been assigned to write a story which exposes as a fraud Carter's war heroism tale. But Carter falls for Lexie. And so does Dodge. And that's pretty much the movie. There's very little in the way of drama, which wouldn't be so bad if all of the attempts at humor didn't fall so flat. Few things are as frustrating as an unfunny comedy and that's what we've got here. It's an obvious homage to all those long-ago screwball films. The look, the style, the dialogue...it's obvious what Clooney's going for. But he can't pull it off. He's not helped by his two co-stars. Renée Zellweger seems to have misplaced her trademark spunk. Her Lexie is bland and rather boring. And, playing Carter, John Krasinski hardly makes any impression at all. We never end up really feeling much of anything for his character. He's just kind of there, taking up space. It's pretty much left to Clooney to infuse some life into the film, which he does, but it's not enough. The best moments are the verbal back and forth between Clooney and Zellweger. Clooney wins those battles hands down. So it appears that in his writing capacity he remembered to give himself some opportunities to shine but nobody else gets much of anything to work with. It all leads up, as all these sports movies do of course, to the big game at the end. But even that's pretty much a dud. It's a blah climax to a blah film.

This movie is absolutely awful. I suffered over an hour of this brain numbing rubbish thinking to myself it will get better. well guess what..it didn't!!! Even if you see this free of charge don't take it! It's like water torture. The acting is... well what acting is all I can say. I have given it one out of ten out of pure sympathy. Is it me or is George Clooney completely overrated, admittedly he has made one or two good movies but on a whole. I bought this movie as I like sports movies especially ones with a decent storyline, so you can imagine how disappointing it was to find out what a mistake I had made. I have seen the scathing reviews for Radio (Cuba Gooding Jr)but that looks like an academy winner compared to Leatherheads.

I was surprised to see the very generous rating on IMDb. This honestly is the worst film i have watched in my entire life. It was so slow and lifeless that i actually started making up other stories in my head to help make the time pass faster.Im not a high maintenance film watcher - ill happily sit through the most basic Rom com to an espionage film with constant twists and turns, to ... well you get the picture. My tastes are well rounded and easy to please.Renee looked like she had just sucked on a lemon in every scene. Her accent was terrible and acting worse. Im a huge fan of Bridget Jones and its tongue in cheek humour and her good portrait of the character so had some expectations (not particularly high) of how this movie would be. It didn't even deliver on those moderate expectations.If you have nothing to do this afternoon i suggest you save your $10 and watch paint dry or something equally more exciting than sitting through this film

Poor material makes even the decent chemistry between George Clooney and Renee Zellwegger really nothing.The story is about 1925 college football, or is it beyond college? That point is really not established and at times becomes confusing.While you do get a feel for the roaring twenties period, the writing is ridiculous as Renee Zellwegger, a reporter, tries to get the goods on a football hero who is also a war hero.Some of the scenes, especially running away from a speak-easy raid and jumping off a building into a net are ridiculous. The picture is nothing more than a cheap ripoff of a bygone era filled with clichés which eventually run themselves into the ground.