- When the Game Stands Tall is one of those clich-riddled feel good movies that, by trying too hard to be inspirational, ends up as cloying and overly sentimental.
- New York Magazine/Vulture8/22/2014 by Bilge EbiriThe real-life story behind When the Game Stands Tall sounds amazing. But for all its exciting sports scenes, the movie version falls flat as drama.
- Most often in its early stages, the melodrama onscreen edges precipitously close to dissolving into a puddle of platitudinous pabulum served in the manner of a rote Sunday school lesson.
- Why must an extraordinary story beget such an ordinary film?
- A true tale of high school football achievement becomes a strained, by-the-numbers grab bag of uplift in the Christian sports drama 'When the Game Stands Tall.'
- Philadelphia Inquirer8/22/2014 by David HiltbrandWhen the Game Stands Tall is more manipulative than a hulking chiropractor. It's so busy beatifying its protagonist that it makes him into a grave idol rather than a man.
- High school football can be described as a religion in many parts of America. Sappily melodramatic When the Game Stands Tall skips the middle man and blends both in a weak-willed, clichd biopic of California coach Bob Ladouceur.
- The movie raises religious and philosophical questions about whether what we put out in the world is returned to us, but it sticks with the ultimate American answer: There is no problem so great that winning a football game won't solve it.
- In the end, the only real impact is limited to a few scenes ...
- It's as if the filmmakers somehow think they've got the relaxed narrative confines of 'Friday Night Lights' the TV series to play with, rather than 'Friday Night Lights' the movie. The game plan is flawed.
- Overall, 'When the Game Stands Tall' feels like a post-loss locker-room speech: meaningful, but less than inspirational.
- When it comes down to fourth and goal, the movie is more about moving the pigskin than moving the audience.
- When the Game Stands Tall feels as if it will connect with the audiences at which it's aimed.
- The game footage is outstanding, very realistic. Even when the outcome of games is never in question - which is often - it's still exciting to watch.
- [The film] makes a commendable effort to invest the inspirational sports movie with some deeper meaning but simultaneously labors to keep all the genre cliches firmly in place.
- Undeserving of a victory dance
- San Francisco Chronicle8/21/2014 by Peter HartlaubThe greater narrative always remains on track, often leading to unexpected places.
- It's easier to appreciate what When The Games Stands Tall doesn't do than it is to admire what it does.
- 'When the Game Stands Tall' is nearly as good as the average episode of TV's 'Friday Nights Lights,' which makes it better than most movies and one of the better sports films of recent years.
- Goes long on rectitudinous sermonizing but comes up short on gridiron thrills or genuine love for the game.
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