I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

People take this game way to seriously. Do not teach your kids these values it will only screw them up later in life. But then again this is "Texas".

No shock that when Bissinger's incredible book of the same name came out, residents of Odessa were none too pleased with what they read. It painted Odessa as a very backwards and overtly racist town. Countless examples and incidents revealed a Texas town still stuck in the Jim Crow days of years passed, inspired only by high school football victories. High school football was the main theme of the book, but the racism found in the community was right there with it. Enter Peter Berg, who wished to make a film about high school football, in particular, he wants to make this book into a movie. The community of Odessa made it clear, no way. Berg would not be allowed to use Permian images or Permian facilities. Berg pleads with the Odessa district to let him make the film, he pledges that he will remove all of the racist elements in the book that made Odessa look bad. In fact, Berg went one step further, he decided he would deal with the prejudice angle, by using African Americans as the example of the bigotry. The black coaches of the all-black Dallas Carter team that faces Permian in the championship game complain bitterly about the initial lack of black referees, implying they want to stack the deck for the black team. During the game, the black refs wink and smile at the black players as they taunt, cheap shot, showboat and play dirty. A black referee blatantly cheats on a call in favor of Dallas Carter. It is incredible! This is when you realize, this horrible excuse for a movie had nothing to do with the actual book it was based. It is very difficult for me to tell anyone that they should watch a movie, when the story being told, completely distorts the truth of what that film was supposedly based on.

Being french (did I hear French? where is the guillotine?) I watched this movie as I am a great fan of both Peter Berg and Billy Bob Thornton (especially as a coach in a comedy or a drama). I am a stranger to American football as it is not on TV in Europe in spite of a few attempts.For a foreigner, it is such a great experience to watch this movie as it shows a few things that are so different to our world in ol' Europe and how sport, its history and how it is integrated into culture in some countries such as England or the US. It is interesting also in a sense that it shows that in poor areas of the US, the American dream is only possible through getting in a college and may be in a sport team and one is at the mercy of a potential debilitating injury. The pressure of "old hands" players who know best on the coach, the people outside of the game who also think they know is marvellous. Anyway, if you do not know anything about American culture and its sport, it is probably one of the best movie to watch.

Based on Bissinger's book, Odessa is a small dusty town in Texas. There is only one thing that is important to the people of this town. It's their high school football team winning State. Coach Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) is new to the team. The pressure is unbearable. In the last moments of the first game, their star running back Boobie Miles (Derek Luke) gets severely injured. The team struggles without him.This is a movie where there is a real sense of place. The characters are realistic. They are aggressively realistic. There are no easy saints. The kids all struggle. Tim McGraw plays a drunken father. Amber Heard has a small debut part as a sexualized teen. Lucas Black is wonderful as the stoic quarterback trying to take care of his mother. It is modern day poetry.