Review of Gridiron Gang (2006) by Steven Y — 26 Mar 2009

In a world where the lines are crossed and the message gets somewhat blurred. This is a movie that kids watching really get engrossed in watching what's going on in the movie. Dedication and devotion to the team aspect and maintaining the story so close that actual storyline and providing the clips at the end of the movie was a nice touch.

So many times we stick these kids into work camps as stated in the movie, there is really no other direction for these kids to go. It is a shame that more programs like this exists around the country with more frequency.

As for the movie content was somewhat predictable but did provide enough personalized touches with story lines of real characters and actually using some of the current detainees within the camp to use within the movie itself.

Additionally I was also impressed that all the football was REAL action. Go through the special features and you will get the action directors integrity to really depicting the game. As for those of you who don't remember Dwayne Johnson the football player you don't know what you missed cause he was a monster and did in fact physically attack using his upper body strength as mentioned in the movie.

The man was a human wrecking machine but talent is talent. So I am not so startled that he is bettering his skills in acting on the screen rather than on the mat.