Best movie of this year hands down!

A Disappointing Continuation

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I enjoyed this. Its well made, well acted and inspirational but I'll admit I have seen better sports movies and at times it did feel a little clichéd and rah, rah even though its based on a true story.The Express is based on the life story of Ernie Davis; a Syracuse university running back who became the first African American to win the Heisman trophy in 1961. This biopic covers his entire life and there were some sections that went on a bit too long (THAT game in Texas for example -which for a non football person seemed to take forever) and the ending also seemed abrupt, just a post-note as to what happened to him. *Sigh* Rob Brown does a great job portraying Davis though and Dennis Quaid is fine, as the coach although he ain't no Billy Bob Thornton ala 'Friday Night Lights'. There were some decent sub roles here too; Nelson Ellis (True Blood) Charles S. Dutton, and Omar Benson Miller who was very likable.This takes place just as the civil rights movement was gaining steam and Davis faced a ton of prejudice and just full on racism which always makes me uncomfortable, how he handles himself and challenges his coach to stand up for the players is what really makes him a hero. 11/6/14

Before I saw this movie I only knew that its about American football. So I did not expect much except nice moves, plays...etcBut this movie is much more than that. It shows how was it for African American person in America back then. However, it doesn't succeddes to transfer experience from those times to viewers as much as director wanted, but it certainly shows that football was mostly much more than a game.Acting was good, Dennis Quaid made great performance as head coach. Plot had no major errors, although it may seem that it was moving too fast at the end. On the other hand, more than 2 hours are enough, so its acceptable.All in all...I give it a 8...great effort, good movie, certainly worth watching.

Even though I knew absolutely nothing about Ernie Davis, the tragic young hero of this biopic, as I watched this film the suspicion that I was watching one of those largely fictionalised accounts that typifies the kind of biopics Hollywood churned out in its golden age kept growing with each predictable emotional peak and plot twist. A quick scan of some of the comments on the film's message board quickly confirmed those suspicions.Chronological impossibilities aside, this film could have easily been made in the 30s or 40s. Ernie Davis - and every other black character in this film - is filled with a kind of pious nobility that set them apart from most white characters in the film - apart from those insightful enough (such as gruff old coach Burgess Meredith, erm, Jon Voight - no, Samuel L. Jackson… Gene Hackman? Dennis Quaid!) to see the boy's football talent (but not his uniqueness as an individual) . The whites in this film are blindly racist West Virginians or gung-ho jocks or wise-cracking sports reporters. Everything is black and white, you might say.The film's well-made, the acting is good (especially Rob Brown as Davis), and there's no doubting the sincerity of the writers or the source material. But by following conventional biopic story lines and blatantly distorting certain incidents and situations in order to make a 'better' film, the makers severely dilute its impact and bring into question every aspect, thus making it unreliable as a 'true story.' It might also perhaps have been wiser to finish the film after Syracuse's victory over Texas at the Rose Bowl, with titles to inform the viewer of Davis's winning of the Heisman Trophy and the illness that cruelly cut short his life, rather than continuing another half-an-hour after its emotional and inspirational peak.

Shame on the makers of this movie! WV native Syracuse Coach Ben Schwartzwalder would have rolled over in his grave to have seen his Alma Mater and home state portrayed this way. WV and Syracuse did not even play in Morgantown in 1959. The portrayal of WVU fans throwing bottles and uttering racist comments, statements made such as "that's how they do it down there", etc. are as racist and stereotypical as those portrayed to be West Virginia University and University of Texas fans in this movie. I just can't imagine a man who had risen to his stature saying that about his home state and the college where he matriculated and played football either.The players who played for SU in 1959, as well as for Texas in the 1960 Cotton Bowl, said upon seeing the screening of this movie that they remember none of these events taking place at either of these games. And remember, one of those games didn't actually happen.Wanna see a good football movie? Watch "We Are Marshall" instead. Though it takes liberties with the characters and events, it is at least somewhat factual. And a truer and much more accurate picture of West Virginians in those days.