I gave a very average rating for a very average movie. I went into this hoping that maybe it can have the same effect as 42 did. While it had some elements it just wasn't anything memorable or anything unique about this. It's not the best football movie, it's not the best Christian-based movie, it's just very run-of-the-mill. The acting is average, Levi does a fine job trying to exercise his dramatic skills, but was never hooked into his performance. Anna Paquin plays your typical wife with typical problems and some of it is very cliched, and the one guy I was looking forward to seeing was Dennis Quaid, but even he didn't turn in a mind-bending performance, sometimes came across as awkward and silly. The only two things that did impress me however was the young actor who played Zack who's name is Hayden Zaller, I thought he did a fantastic job, giving the only standout, most genuine performance in the film. The last thing is the editing at the end of the film was very subtle and caught me off guard, but at the same time I do feel like the ending was compromised as it just didn't feel complete, I appreciate what they were going for and I like the editing itself but what it resulted in for the ending as a whole didn't work for me. Overall, I was very unimpressed by this film, I don't hate it or want it to be burned from human existence. However, it was just very generic, very mundane, nothing about the movie is anything I'll remember, certainly not in the same way as 42. The acting was subpar minus Zaller, the story was uneventful and flat, but on the same token, it's a very harmless film. If you just want a movie that's not too complex and is told in the simplest way, and a movie you can just sit back and relax with as your full attention is not required, then you may enjoy. For people like me who likes to get engrossed in the story and ask for a lot more to be offered, this is not the movie for me. If seen better movies similar to this, and I don't need to talk about it any further. 6.1/10.
Review of American Underdog
