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Just perfect...

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

It's 1925. College football is wildly popular but pro football garner no interest at all. Dodge Connelly (George Clooney) is trying to keep his team and the league going. Carter 'the Bullet' Rutherford (John Krasinski) is a college star. When the team goes broke losing their sponsor, Dodge tries to revive it by attracting Carter to the pros. Lexie Littleton (Renée Zellweger) is a serious reporter who is told to write up the war hero Bullet and then double cross him with a expose with fellow soldier Mack Steiner's true story of the incident.Clooney is trying to bring the old fashion screwball comedy back. The movie works best with the fast talking chemistry between Clooney and Zellweger. There is good heat and Zellweger is great at feigning anger. The movie is good for most of it. However the deception doesn't work well for the story. It would be so much better if Bullet comes clean on his own. The movie is a bit long and the last half needs to be cut back. He just needs to make this movie about the romance and keep Krasinski as a side character.

I think, as they often do, The AV Club put my opinion of 'Leatherheads' more concisely than I ever could. They say the following about the film:"If amiability equaled greatness, Leatherheads would be destined to become a classic."Nevertheless, I am very surprised at the largely negative reputation this film has and believe it to be somewhat underrated. Clooney's directorial filmography reads like a list of films I've always meant to get round to seeing and although Leatherheads was probably a rather odd place to start, I'd be more than happy to watch it again. It is a fun, zippy comedy with a slightly misplaced romantic subplot that dulls the film when it takes center stage in the second act. In addition to this, John Krasinski's character was evidently a nightmare for the screenwriters, as he is required to be almost a villain while also being actively likable and sympathetic. Although Rick Reilly (the film's scriptwriter) somewhat pulls this off, it's one of the more difficult balancing acts I've seen in a lighthearted comedy.As I say, the film is at it's best when it's attention is away from Renee Zellwegger and the tired love triangle tropes. Obviously the high points of the film come during the interactions between Clooney and Krasinski and when the characters take to the field to actually play football. This may be somewhat unsurprising given my prior stated love of both screwball comedies and underdog sports movies, but I think I may be on the side of general consensus with that one. The AV Club's quote highlights the fact that this film is a lot of fun to watch and had me constantly smiling throughout, even if it was somewhat lacking in full- on gut laughs. There were a number of set pieces that just felt like a loving embracement of a kind of sweet wackiness at the film's core, and none more so than the film's final football match which is somewhat predictably the highlight.But alas, the sting in the tail of that initial quote is still present too. Whilst I had a lot of fun watching Leatherheads I'd struggle to recommend that it'd be anyone's favourite movie. While it does most of what it does well it lacks lofty ambitions and mostly plays it's humour where it knows it is close to the surface. I'm confident that if it dug a little deeper the edges could've perhaps been sharper and the characters could've maybe been deeper. Were that the case we may have been looking at an extra half-star but as it is Leatherheads is a respectable, enjoyable film that I'd thoroughly encourage anyone to check out if they like watching a film to feel like they're being hugged by a time period.

The sets and costumes were wonderful as was the cast, but the story's so thin as to be non-existent. The few plot points that there are really don't get developed much, and you're left caring little or nothing for any of the characters or events.The film has a great "look" but that's about it. It's very slow getting started and then peters out and ends without anybody even noticing. It just has zero substance. The only real conflict in the film is so minor (a veteran embellishing his war record) as to strain credulity that a reporter would be assigned to nothing else but checking that out. Then the resolution to that was so self-evident and anti-climactic as to put one to sleep. The story just yawns from beginning to end.I think they really need to try a little harder...

Leatherheads is a comedy about professional football in the 30's. It's one of those movies that has a good cast and some good moments, and yet it's a movie everyone's seen before. George Clooney stars as Dodge Connelly, a man who runs a football team that is slowly going downhill. John Krasinski is very good as Carter Rutherford, a big time football player who agrees to join their team to make it better. Renee Zellweger plays Lexie Littleton, a news reporter whose love Carter and Dodge are fighting for. This becomes a romantic comedy. It had its funny and romantic moments, it wasn't bad at all. It just wasn't good. It's a movie that's enjoyable, but in most of its moments, even the better moments, it feels forced, it feels like it's trying too hard. Nothing about it seems authentic. It has its occasional good moments, and the style is pretty good. That said, it all feels amateur, and I can't quite say it's a good movie. It's not a bad one, just one I'm not able to recommend. If you happen to run into it on TV, it's probably worth watching, just don't pay to see it, because it's simply not worth it.