{"id":3353104,"date":"2014-04-14T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insidepulse.dev\/?p=353104"},"modified":"2014-04-13T23:38:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T03:38:33","slug":"monday-morning-critic-draft-day-kevin-costner-and-the-power-of-hope-2014s-most-over-hyped-film-the-raid-2-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/2014\/04\/14\/monday-morning-critic-draft-day-kevin-costner-and-the-power-of-hope-2014s-most-over-hyped-film-the-raid-2-a-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morning Critic – Draft Day<\/I>, Kevin Costner and The Power of Hope – 2014’s Most Over-Hyped Film: The Raid 2<\/I>, A Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I didn’t want to do a full review of Draft Day<\/I> this weekend, mainly because I didn’t have many thoughts that hadn’t already been said en masse earlier. I thought it was a good, not great, film that touched on a lot of marks but didn’t score a touchdown. It was in striking range, and in the red zone a couple times, but it settled for field goals instead. Sometimes you can’t hit that home run with a film but you can make a good one out of it, which isn’t a bad thing sometimes. It’s ok to take a film like this and make it enjoyable, keeping it in that area between good and great, without going full bore for a masterpiece. <\/p>\n

Sometimes it’s ok to understand the limits of the material and keep them within there.<\/p>\n

The one thing the film did that I think hasn’t really been done in sports is that it accurately shows just how powerful and intoxicating hope is in sport. It’s the one thing the NFL draft symbolizes more than any other professional sport: the power of hope to make you think that one player can turn you from zero to hero. The NFL draft, which garners an insane amount of viewers, is the ultimate spectacle in sport when it comes to inspiring this.<\/p>\n

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And it’s the one thing the film definitively understands at its soul. Its one conceit early on is that the Cleveland Browns, and nearly every other franchise, are more than one player away from contending. Holes are everywhere, multiple positions and players are needed, and yet that air before the draft makes you feel like only a handful of players are needed to take your fortunes from the gutter to the penthouse. You can feel the desperation in the air from Sonny Weaver but that the hope is just as intoxicating. <\/p>\n

You might need a dozen players \u2026 but one of those blue chippers he sees in front of him could turn things around. That stud middle linebacker could anchor his defense \u2026 that running back his head coach covets could make his offense sizzle \u2026 and that once in a generation quarterback could be the piece he builds everything around. It’s what drives the film and makes it a strong viewing. We get to overlook all of the flaws of a roster already built, of all the questions coming in to a season, because of this overwhelming power of hope.<\/p>\n

It’s why I think this film is going to hold up for much longer than it normally would. Films about the business of sport generally tend to be illuminating for any number of reasons. Draft Day<\/I> is a film about the nature of sports faith; of that hope beyond hope that this is going to be “our year.”<\/p>\n

Stuff for General George S. Pimpage, Esq <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

My post fight predictions after Friday’s UFC Fight Pass card are right here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Travis tackled Draft Day<\/I> and was spot on with his review.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mike Noyes tackled +1<\/em> on DVD.<\/a><\/p>\n

And now on MMC \u2026 we work some biceps.<\/p>\n