Leatherheads: Go Bulldogs!

Director: George Clooney
Writers: Duncan Brantley, Rick Reilly
Producers: George Clooney,Grant Heslov, Casey Silver

Starring: George Clooney as Jimmy "Dodge" Connelly, Renee Zellweger as Lexie Littleton, John Krasinski as Carter Rutherford, Jonathan Price as C.C Frazier, and Stephen Root as Suds(IMDb). PG-13.

The year is 1925. Dodge Connelly wanted to save his dissolved bankrupt professional football team, but he had no way of doing so until he realized in an epiphany that he if could convince the college football war hero, Carter Rutherford to become a pro he could save his already defunct football team. After completing the deal with Rutherford's manager C.C Frazier, all is going well until news surfaces from one of Rutherford's former war buddies that he is not as big of a war hero everyone thinks, and the reporter Lexie Littleton is under pressure from her boss to expose this. Exposing this fact about Rutherford's service record is problematic for Frazier because there is plenty of money to be made from Rutherford's public persona.

A very stylish, well crafted film that has plenty to offer the movie goer who enjoys films that are historically derived. The character Dodge Connelly is based J0hnny "Blood" Mcnally, a professional NFL player who was active between 1925-1938. Production wise the film had tons of style from the clothe, to the stadium, and to the transportation. The milieu and character of the 1920's was well conveyed.

I liked a lot of things about this film, but something was not right. I could not detect what it was.The script was witty.The pace of the film was right. The acting was awesome but something was missing. Well to begin with, the climax of the film did not occur until the end of the middle of the film. A majority of the film suffered from existential problems in that it questioned its purpose for existing. I felt the film was lost in the wilderness its own craftiness. The Production was great but it had too much of a factor in supporting the movie's livelihood.

The film was also anti-climatic. Comedic but not comedic enough, most of the scenes were witty and funny but they did not hit the mark quite right as they were not efficacious in making an impact. The suicide attempt scene involving the police foot chase was one key example of how other scenes functioned in the opposite direction of making a strong impressive closure. According to Rottentomatoes.com, 54% of critics gave the film a positive review. Metacritic.com reported an average score of 57 out of 100 based on 32 reviews. And according to Movies.com, fans gave it a B, critics gave it a B-, and I will give it a C+. Stay tuned, Movieporium.blogspot.com.