It was a good movie, but it just didn't have the same heart and push as "Remember the Titans" or "Rudy", etc to me. All the ingredients were there: underdogs, struggling to come together as a team, lots of raw talent but somehow, when it all was put together...it just didn't really get it done. The soccer scenes are done well and are exciting - coming from someone who doesn't know anything about soccer other than you can't touch the ball with your hands and you have to get it into net. It just left me thinking "that's it?" If Gerard Butler wasn't in it, I wouldn't watch it again. Incidentally, this is the only "underdogs beating all the odds" sports movie I've seen about adults...I wonder if that's the "missing" piece to this film? We root more for kids, and get more unbridled emotion from kids than adults, so we feel more?
Review of The Game of Their Lives
