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That's Who You're Getting To Replace Me? Ok. Good Luck!




It is hard to get second opportunities in life, but it is not that hard in sports, especially in football. As JFK once said, there are no second acts in life.  

In this hilarious sports/comedy movie, Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves) is a beat up old college QB that gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he is picked up by the Washington Sentinels pro football team and their new coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman). The reason? because the real NFL players are on strike and the show has to go on, so Gene Hackman finds a rag-tag team of outsiders, the replacements, to take the pro-players place, some of these replacements include John Favreau, a widescreen favorite. So this Falco fellow along with one of the most diverse groups of has beens, convicts, ex college players, degenerate gamblers and even a priest, gets signed for the remainder of the season, in order to cover for the overrated starters who went into the strike. 





Throughout the film, these team of "replacement" players hopes to win 3 out of the 4 games to make it to the playoffs, something the franchise hasn't done in a really long time. 4 games in which their life’s will change, they will be involved in brawls, shootings, embarrassing moments on and off the field that will definitely make you laugh from start to end.




Definitely one of the best sport/comedies out there, if you are a sport buff, this is a must see, and if aren't, watch it anyways you'll have a good laugh too. 

Ole ole ole ole

Grade: Widescreen. 

Keanu gets nothing but love from us. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFy17auuK08

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