Draft Day


On the day of the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver (Costner) has the opportunity to save football in Cleveland when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with dreams of playing in the NFL.

This movie is a dictionary definition of one of those movies where you have seen the movie just by seeing the trailer.  It definitely succeeded in getting me excited for this year's NFL draft and the football season to follow.   It had a very real feel to how the draft day works with trades and what not and totally drove home the importance of talent evaluation on the pro football level.  I wish the Jets had a guy like Sonny who didn't spend more time buying into the hype instead of really looking deep at their potential players.  But besides that, the movie was really just there.  And you knew how 75% of it was going to go from the trailer and you knew how the other 25% would go because it wasn't going to have the hero look bad.

I wouldn't really recommend anyone rushing to see this movie.  Just get hyped for the draft by watching the ads for this movie and save the two hours of your life to do something else.