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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4323012, member: 833"] [B]American Underdog (2021) [/B]- It is on Hulu. This is the Kurt Warner biopic with Zack Levi, Anna Paquin and Dennis Quaid. This is a reasonably well done, feel good, sports biopic. If you go in wanting to see that, you won't be disappointed. Spoilers below, but I am assuming no one is watching this movie unless they already know the basics of the story. This movie could have been a lot more, and if you read deeper into the movie, there are some problems. Kurt Warner is one of the strangest stories of any super successful athlete in history, and Kurt and Brenda Warner are also a very unusual story for a professional athlete couple. The uniqueness of the story is why they made a movie out of this, but I almost feel like somewhere there is a Director's Cut that will make more sense than what I just watched. Kurt is portayed as partly insanely confident jock, part humble family man, but Levi goes back and forth between the two Kurts without explanation. Brenda Warner (played very well by Paquin, who kind of carries the movie) is in everyone's face and kind of annoying, but also somehow appealing and likable in her single mother focus and semi-desperation. It feels like the Directors (there are two) didn't trust the movie to tell us the story either because the two main characters lapse into telling us how much they love each other rather than showing it. Their faith is never really explained even though it is referred to several times. Kurt's fall and rise is fairly well done, but the movie kind of races through the Greatest Show on Turf season with a montage and a bunch of exposition using clips from Sportscenter at the end to tell you how you are supposed to feel about the movie, All the pieces are there for the Directors to bring the story together but they kind of blow it. Dennis Quaid sucks as Dick Vermeil. Vermeil has a very distinctive high pitched voice and he has a rapid delivery, but Quaid plays it just like the did with Ben Schwartzwelder from The Express movie, sounding like a 75 year old chain smoker that has the beginnings of dementia. It isn't even close to Vermeil, and kind of undermines the whole third act. [/QUOTE]

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