I've seen this movie a couple of times, and being a brit I didn't know much about Marshall University, all i'd heard was reading about aviation accidents, which is how I found out about this film, I enjoy watching films based on true stories, this film was ok in my eyes, but Matthew Mc's performance really grinded on me, I've heard the real Jack Lengyel talk and Mathhew just didn't seem to pull off any of his mannerisms at all. I thought Matthew Fox played a good part, David Strathairn was also good as well.
What I enjoyed seeing most in this movie was the friendship, a group of young men standing shoulder to shoulder in the face of this terrible tragedy, just to be able to take the field again was a massive effort in itself, and although they knew they were never going to be serious championship contenders they took to the field to honour those that could not be there.
Now onto the ending, I felt it was justified, my take on the ending was that it was totally necessary, like Jack said in the movie 'The Funerals End Today'. That game was probably the most important they ever played, to me that game was a start to the community putting some kind of closure on the incident
The narration and game videos at the end was also a nice touch, because for people who don't know about this or have heard about it, it provides a message that even when your down and out and it looks like you have no chance, that given time and hard work you can get back to your best, going from a team that had the worst record of any University in the Seventies to winning a bucketload of trophies within 3 decades just goes to show you can work your way back up
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