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4.0 out of 5 stars Leagues and Wales, Nov 25 2003

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This review is from: Shot at Glory (Widescreen) (DVD)

In response to a previous review, football teams can play in other leagues, look at Wales... That said most of that review is incorrect and should be disregarded because its simply not true.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Glory Days...., April 19 2004

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Robert C Atchisson (St. Louis, Missouri United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shot at Glory (Widescreen) (DVD)

Robert Duvall is the quenessential actor's actor. His ability to not only morph into any role but actually disappear entirely truly makes him a national treasure. However, for this 2000 release, he becomes an international treasure in the role of coach of a second tier Scottish football team. Duvalls weathered countenance is right at home among the equally grand and haggard Scottish countryside. Michael Keaton turns in a brief but potent turn as the team's owner, set on moving the team from its small Scottish home to a bigger stadium in Dublin. The film is more of a quiet character study than an all out sports film, but the game scenes infuse the movie with surprising passion and energy. Well worth owning.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A good story... ruined by a wildly impossible sub-plot, Nov 18 2003

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Mr J Birch (Letchworth Garden City, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shot at Glory (Widescreen) (DVD)

Here is a sports film that gets the difficult stuff right, but blows it all thanks to a gratingly impossible and totally unnecessary sub-plot.

First the good bits. Kilnockie - an invented Scottish second division side - embark on an unlikely run in the Scottish Cup. So far so unoriginal. But the on-field scenes are superbly realistic - comfortably the best I have ever seen in any sport-related film.

Then we have a real professional sportsman playing the lead - but amazingly this is a real professional sportsman who can act. Indeed he acts the pants off several better known actors and is utterly believable.

It is also unpredictable - just at the moment you expect the "usual" to happen... it doesn't! There is a standard love interest, for example, but it doesn't get in the way.

Throw in a sectarian sub-plot (about which more could have been done in fact) and this could have been a classic. So why the **** did some eejut allow this stupid sub-plot about an American owner threatening to move the club to Ireland?

Not only was this clearly and obviously shoe-horned into the script at the last minute, not only was the American owner - played by Michael Keaton - unconvincing (and appalingly performed) to the point of absurdity, but as a storyline it is utterly, utterly, utterly impossible.

Anyone who knows anything about the game will know that a club based in one country cannot play in another's league. UEFA wouldn't wear it, even if the SFA allowed it (which they would not). But like a bad penny - every time the film getting going - this inept plot line shows up and has the effect of chalk being scraped across a blackboard. Eeeeghhhhh!!!!

Yes - we can all guess WHY this stupid idea was added - because US audiences would identify with it. But the trouble is it destroys the film for anyone who knows anything about football by constantly highlighting the fiction. One can only suspend belief so far!

And its all SUCH a shame!!!

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