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Starring Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, Cameron Diaz, et al. Released to DVD on September 1, 2000. One of the reasons that cinemas and nickelodeons became so popular during the early part of the 20th century was because of the heightened sense of reality that the films brought to people's lives. Watching Any Given Sunday, writer/director Oliver Stone's latest opus, I was struck by the way in which Stone follows this same principle--inflating the on-screen action to a point where the material is almost unbelievable--in order to strike a definitive chord with his audiences. Starring Jamie Foxx and Al Pacino, Any Given Sunday follows the inner workings of Coach D'Amato's (Pacino) Miami Sharks, a professional football team in a very NFL-like league, throughout the course of one very long and tumultuous season. Unlike most movies focusing on football though, Any Given Sunday is not about the sport of football per se. In true Oliver Stone fashion, Any Given Sunday is about the politics and, dare I say, conspiracies swirling about in the sporting arenas where the Sharks play. Like the rest of Stone's films, Any Given Sunday holds the viewers attention, but this movie loses several points for Stone's almost chaotic method of filming on the field that essentially consisted of cameramen throwing hand held cameras over the scrum at the line of scrimmage. Motion sickness aside, Stone has delivered another solid movie in Any Given Sunday.
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