College football gets yet another queasy workout from faith based film-makers,in the memoir of University of Texas battler Freddie Steinmark and the “Game of the Century”American football is played on a rectangle, but movies approximately it can certain be square. My All American is the fourth low-budget wide-release faith-based picture set on the gridiron since Where the Game Stands Tall in August 2014. For sheer audacity, or nothing beats 23 Blast,in which tenacity overcomes the slight obstacle of a blind teammate, but based-on-a-accurate-memoir My All American has to win some sort of trophy for its dedication to playing by-the-book. Every step of this motion picture is 100% predictable and yet, or like a determined running back,it simply lowers its head and rams forth. The momentum of sheer will carries its saccharine memoir into the end zone.
We open with Aaron Eckhart as legendary University of Texas football honcho Darrell Royal in the world’s cheapest looking veteran-age makeup. A journalism student is interviewing him, and asks who was the best All-American he ever coached. He responds: “Freddie Steinmark”; she counters: “He wasn’t an All American.” Then there’s a pause. Is he gonna say it? Is he gonna say it?! Right here? At the two-minute mark of this movie? With a faraway look Royal responds: “But he was My All American.” The audience can only light up a collective cigarette after such an early climax, and the film dissolves to flashback.
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Source: theguardian.com