The Worst Film Ever

Sorry, this movie sucks

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Only a score of 5 would be suitable, but the movie itself deserves much higher than what it has received. I had originally only wanted to see this because Ryan Merriman was in it and it was a sports movie. After watching this movie and reading all the negative comments I had to write my first review and say this movie is really worth the watch. Aidan Quinn IMO put on an Oscar worthy performance. I honestly have not had so many tears watching a movie and it was because he made you feel the pain in a fathers heart. The moment he met the woman who received Lukes heart will stick with me for a long time.PLEASE don't let the negative views and low score deter you from watching this film.

I know that some people think that this is not a sports movie and that it used the "guise" of sports to promote a "Christian" theme. Well, the thing is, Christianity, in reality is just like this stuff in the movie. Sometimes we hurt. We're human. This movie takes you through the true- life situation of a Christian family who lost their son in tragedy. Their faith in Jesus is all that sustains them. The mechanism in this family's, or this brother's, case is football. It's not about the sport. It's about the family and their faith in Christ. People always try to down-play our faith and hope and demean them in any way they can. But for those of us who have a real faith in Christ, we know these are just the trying times and there is life after death. Not just the way we get by after an untimely (or ANY) death, and how to get on with life, but the way we know in our heart of hearts, there is life after death. There is eternal life...somewhere. Where will YOU be when that day comes for you? There is only the side of truth in Christ or the alternative, life in eternal pain and turmoil, that is, hell. I chose life in Jesus. I pray you will, too.

This is a pretty good Faith-based movie. From reading other reviews, some people don't understand that this movie is REALLY BASED ON A TRUE STORY. I'm reading that some people are turned off by Merriman's hair. Well that's because that's how the real player's hair was. I'm a Wake Forest fan and I watched a lot from that season. They did the best they could wit what they had. Scenes were filmed from campus and the stadium. They did have to do some cosmetics (terrible) to the stadium because it undergone changes since that season in 2006 (rename and video screen.) The acting isn't too bad, a bit too dramatic at times. Yes, some scenes weren't completely true, but that was the same for the Blindside too. I don't know if any of you noticed but many times they used actual footage from televised games. I didn't like how a lot of the time they showed the same footage of the crowd, even if they were at different stadiums, I could tell they use scenes from the same stadium. Good movie overall though. Worth watching a least once.

I saw this on my NetFlix it looked like an OK movie, but then i started watching it and, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone the story is a good one but the way it was put together just doesn't work. I like Ryan Merriman from his Disney movie days but in this movie I just cant get past him with the long hair and how it always looks dirty no matter what, just a bad choice in my opinion. I had no idea going into this movie it was going to be a Faith driven movie, witch I have never been a big fan of but to each our own right? The off acting, music cues and editing of this movie just threw me off I made it 3/4 the way through the movie before i had to change it to something else because of it.