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The Replacements (2000)
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The Replacements manages to be both completely formulaic and yet immensely enjoyable. When a professional football players' strike happens, the owner of a fictitious team, the Washington Sentinels, commissions maverick coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) to pull together a team. McGinty selects a collection of talented oddballs--a Welsh soccer player, a sumo wrestler, a couple of professional bodyguards--with athletic pasts, figuring that if it doesn't work out as a game, it might as well be a circus. To lead the team, he finds Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), a once-promising player who had a disastrous championship game. Naturally,...
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The Replacements Movie Review by Zara  (1/31/2007) |
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Keanu Reeves, one of my crushes when I was a teenager, looks bored out of his skull in this movie. Or tired. There are times when I really can't tell with the dude anymore. Perhaps that was the point of the character, to look detached and defeated. Or tired. Again... I'm not sure.
The movie is actually a fun one, although...
(complete The Replacements review by Zara)
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