Review of Jerry Maguire (1996) by Christelle T — 01 Dec 2015
Sometimes you watch a movie when you are younger and think it is the best thing ever. Jerry Maguire was one of those movies for me. For years I would say it was a good movie, when in reality, I only saw it once as a younger kid.
Well, I am 32 now, and was home sick from work one day and it happened to be on, so I watched it from start to finish. I sat there dumbfounded about how I could ever think this was a quality movie. It is just flat out, for lack of a better word, corny.
Yes, I guess in the grand scheme of things it is a love story about two unlikely people who come together and football just happens to be in the backdrop. It was actually comical how cheesy it was. Then I started to think, wait a second, Cuba Gooding Jr won an Oscar for this !! Are you kidding me ! Possibly the single most undeserved Oscar award of all time.
He wins over William H Macy in Fargo, a young Edward Norton in Primal Fear, and James Woods in Ghosts of Mississippi. This has to be a mistake, right ? And not to mention Cruise was nominated for Best Actor, there must have been some serious dope smoking that year while the voting was going on, but I digress.
In the end if your looking for a sports movie turn elsewhere, if your looking for a cool movie about sports agents and athletes, turn elsewhere. if you are however, looking for a movie to watch with your girlfriend when she suggests a chick flick night, then I would go for this one, at least you have some type of football action in the backdrop.
Overall though, this movie is just plan cheesy and corny.
This review of Jerry Maguire (1996) was written by Christelle T on 01 Dec 2015.
Jerry Maguire has generally received very positive reviews.
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