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good back-story, and good acting

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This movie has all the ingredients of an epic 9/10. Great cast, great story but still you'll feel something is missing, maybe a great director...I don't know.

It's a great movie really. I am suprised the overall rating is below 8. But I see the movie has many 10/10 reviews. Watch this movie, guaranteed it'll be 2 hrs well spent

'We Are, Marshall!' - any film that can make me want to chant a slogan for a school I have never heard of before, connected to a sport I have no real interest in and make me want to buy a jacket for football team that isn't even in my country when I do wear baseball Jackets anymore has to be doing something right.Its 1970 and Marshall Football Team are on a high, they lost a game sure, but they're looking good and the coaching staff, the team and several people from the town and parents of many members are returning home from the game on a private jet when moments from landing disaster strikes. Can the surviving players who were left behind rebuild the team for the 1971 season, can the University find new coaching staff and will the morale of the town ever recover? Such is the true story of the Marshall University Football Team of 1971, as the characters try to pull together, the re-building of the football team comes to illustrate the dilemma everyone is feeling in attempting to rebuild their own lives. We Are Marshall is a simple story but as a well written script where brevity is key its a bit of an unsung masterclass in my opinion. Watch it a second time and you will see in this film every piece of dialogue in every scene serves a moment for either story or character, while not especially original and close to being in danger of 'true story of the week' WRM is much more than that because of the power and sincerity that is evident here in the film making, you can tell everyone wants to be involved and knows their making something that is a bit special, and they'd be right. It's a strong piece of moving writing that is well performed and I would suggest an extremely honourable way of portraying the suffering of a community that was hit by such a large wave of grief in one go that it does not know how to cope. 'How many children lost both parents?' cries a bereaved father. You cannot help but get caught up in the story. The film is entirely not about football, this is a film about grief and how we deal with it, both individually, collectively and to each other. Matthew McConaughey is at his best here as Jack Lenyel the new football coach and pivot for the story as the stranger who comes into town with boundless energy because he just wants to help 'What if it had been my children' - But look around the cast, this is an ensemble piece where many great actors are starting out early on in their careers. Anthony Mackie powerfully plays Nate Ruffin, who missed out on the game because of an injury, his team mate, conflicted Tom (Brian Geraghty showing his great talent early on) wants to help him re build but has survivors guilt because he overslept and should have been on the plane. But the three stand outs for me were Ian McShane as the grieving father who just wants the football programme to die along with his lost son, Kate Mara who is the bereaved girlfriend of that son, and David Strathairn as the University President who is out of his depth trying to please everyone in a situation he never thought he would have to face. All give solid and believable performances. Special mention must also be made of a young Arlen Escarpeta, the scene where he comes back to his empty room with a case of beer is really moving.There are so many good scenes in this film its hard to name them all - We Are Marshall really goes for the heart strings, but it should, its a moving story about a group of conflicted people unsure of which direction to take to move on - Do they embrace the football programme and try and move forward or scrap it and try and leave everything behind? While some time is dedicated to the new team training and the film even manages a few moments of comedy this is above all not a sports movie, sports just happens to be the historical background under which the events take place. Winning seems out of the teams grasp, but is healing? This is the real question the film asks you.Its well worth your time.

Reader be warned that this could contain a spoiler. As it is based on a true story and all of the information is out there anyway, it is probably not; however, if you do not know the story then stop now. The film We Are Marshall is based on a true story. It is about the 1970 Marshall Football team that died in a plane crash, but it is also about so much more; this is a film is also about overcoming adversity. The film begins with the team and their coach as they lose a game against East Carolina University. After the loss, the team boards the plane to fly back to Huntington WV. Two of the coaches have a discussion about who will stay to do a recruiting visit and who will fly back with the team. Coach Red Dawson (Matthew Fox) ends up staying to do the visit. The plane crash happens very early in the movie because the movie is not really about the plane crash itself, but about what happens after that. Two of the recurring issues throughout the film are grief and survivors guilt. There is grief from the parents of players and families of the coaches and boosters who died in crash. Much of the story is about Annie (Kate Mara) who was the fiancée of the quarterback who died. Coach Dawson and one of the surviving players deal with survivor's guilt because they were both supposed to be on the plane. The university faces the decision of whether to try to field a team for the next season or to indefinitely suspend the program. There is a moving scene where the students of the university make it known to the board of trustees that they want the program to continue. Coach Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey) contacts the university to let them know he is interested in the coaching position. A touching visit between the university president Donald Dedmon (David Strathairn) and the coach ensues. Coach Lengyel ends up leading the team to 2 victories that season. Marshall's football program does survive and thrives in the 1980s. This film is sad early on but develops into a feel-good football movie in the vein of The Blindside or Remember the Titans. One difference between We Are Marshall and those two movies is that they are both about overcoming issues off the field to accomplish great things on the field. This movie is about overcoming issues on the field to help resolve issues off the field. The movie does great at recreating the period and location of 1970's Huntington, WV. There is a scene where Coach Red is working on building a shed. He and coach Lengyel are standing atop the structure and you can get a glimpse of the scenery around them. I have been to the area and it did give the same feeling. Overall, a great movie that tells a story about a university and city that overcame great loss and found their way through the sport of football.