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Draft Day

Draft Day

2014
Drama, Sport
1h 50m
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Avg Percentile 41.04% from 526 total ratings

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Rated 08 Oct 2014
46
16th
I watched a pirated copy of this and around the second day I figured out it was the actual draft. I had thought it was odd that a movie with such a prestigious cast would boo so loudly every time the Jets were mentioned. Edit: I'm sitting back reading this and I honestly don't know if I've written a joke.
Rated 19 Sep 2014
40
11th
I watch movies to be bored out of my mind.
Rated 12 Sep 2014
44
19th
It's got that general excitement that most sports flicks do -- and that heart-warming phony moral that these business guys in sports have a heart and are real people, too --, but it only works as an attempt to produce a Moneyball film for NFL fans. Its portions of (Jennifer, Ellen) just don't click, but Reitman deserves some credit for making the last 30 minutes way more interesting than any pre-season ESPN material and more thrilling than every Pro Bowl we gladly missed.
Rated 26 Apr 2014
40
9th
Going in, the template should of been Moneyball. Obviously, this movie is not Moneyball. First thing; does anybody know how to do math? when you trade 3 1st rounders for a 1st rounder, you are not giving away your next 3 picks...you still have one. But no one can piece that together. The moving split screens I did not enjoy. The movie really should have made a point that you don't win the Super Bowl on draft day, but that's how they frame it. The flyby city intros were terrible and unnecessary.
Rated 03 Sep 2014
74
55th
the league!
Rated 14 Mar 2014
80
80th
Costner's best in a good while. The movie was confusing at first, throwing around a lot of unfamiliar names; but by the end, the packed audience I saw it with was all in. It was like a high stakes poker game (bid, bluff, dodge) with the whole world watching and using football trading cards instead of the standard poker deck. My main negative was the obligatory, Jennifer Garner love interest distraction. Chadwick Boseman is very charismatic. And since they were fictionalizing the 2014 draft, they
Rated 06 Dec 2017
65
16th
This is a great idea for a movie. However the final third of the script is so unbelievable that it ruins the rest of the film. With a better script this would have been a much better movie.
Rated 14 Apr 2014
46
13th
Suffers from the same things as For Love of the Game (the love interest portion is terrible, and you wish that it would all be erased so you could have more of the rest), but isn't nearly as epic or as quality. It was difficult for me to suspend my disbelief regarding all of the actual draft stuff because it was completely ridiculous. In the end it just ties up in a completely formulaic way, and settles in as a much shittier movie than it should've been.
Rated 20 Apr 2014
100
51st
very funny 10 out of 10
Rated 19 May 2015
74
32nd
Quite possibly the most insane cast ever assembled. I want a documentary about how this movie was cast and I want it now. We've got an Arquette, we've got Ellen Burstyn playing a horrible shrew until the plot requires her not to be one. We got 40 seconds of Terry Crews. FRANK LANGELLA. SAM ELLIOTT. All on screen for, like, a total of 10 minutes. So weird. So entertaining. Sam Elliott! Have I mentioned his 90-second role as the coach of Wisconsin? I don't know when I'll get over this.
Rated 05 May 2021
62
24th
Ok Seattle, we'll give you 3 first rounders if you give them back with a punt returner for the chance to draft later in the round because you're obviously excited about getting a guy who you could take if we just don't make this trade. But, we have to make this deal so that we can go off the board at 1st overall. Don't worry, you won't come off as bad as Jacksonville. The drama of these dynamics would work so much better if everyone wasn't dumb.
Rated 23 Jun 2023
57
11th
Treats the viewer like they're completely unfamiliar with the NFL, even though 95% of the people that watch this movie are likely fans or at least familiar. Then it seems to rely on the viewer being both not an NFL fan and a complete moron. Because anyone else would realize how unrealistic the sequence of trades is. Just bad.
Rated 09 Sep 2016
25
19th
#16#, exp3, rw2, story, cast
Rated 12 Jan 2015
70
54th
More entertaining that it has any right to be and a great performance by Costner but the first twist didn't surprise me much at all really. I've been off football this year with all the controversy but it did stir some love of the game in me.
Rated 29 Dec 2015
67
57th
I kinda liked it. It's a bit cliched and not probable at all, but Costner was solid. I kept thinking during it, that it would be a pretty interesting TV show.
Rated 12 Apr 2014
75
56th
I was totally pleased with this. I'm a football fan, so that helped I'm sure, and I suppose you can call it formulaic, but I don't know that I buy that, or that that's necessarily a bad thing. Formula done well can be good on its own. Costner's character got a little annoying during the sub-plot with his mother. The intrigue of the movie really lays within the "trailer story" (the story of the actual draft itself), as well as the back-stories of the prospects. I have to admit, I was hooked.
Rated 29 Oct 2014
69
22nd
Methodical and straightforward, Draft Day is a sports movie that has its moments, but ultimately ends in a very average place, with stale performances and little true engrossing drama.
Rated 01 May 2015
40
12th
Figured it'd basically be Moneyball but with football instead of baseball. Turned out to be a little more small-scale than that. Nothing too spectacularly dramatic about it. Good dad/grandpa movie.
Rated 13 Apr 2014
50
50th
On the other hand, if you've seen from afar the heated interactions on the sidelines of an actual football game, it only takes the slightest lip-reading ability to recognize that coarse language is part and parcel with the gridiron culture. And Draft Day's screenwriters have made sure to include those kinds of profane exclamations, just to make it all feel real, of course. (pluggdin.com)
Rated 30 Aug 2014
61
60th
Beautifully shot and edited. This film kept me interested to the end despite the fact that I haven't watched football in years.
Rated 28 Sep 2014
100
93rd
Great inside look at the NFL draft and enjoyable, engaging movie.
Rated 18 Aug 2014
52
65th
Watched "Draft Day" just before going to my fantasy draft. I think that helped me get through the first part of the movie. It seemed every thing that happened was designed to build pressure on Kevin Costner's character. His mother even shows up minutes before the draft and insists that he stop everything to spread his father's ashes on the field. That said it was really fun when the draft started. The owner of the team must have teleporting device to get to Cleveland from New York as fast as he
Rated 20 Sep 2014
75
40th
I wouldn't give this a first round draft pick, but it was pretty entertaining. Let me preface this by saying I love football (or American football to you soccer fans). I usually just watch College football and skip the NFL. I hardly know anything about the Draft or how it works. This film could be completely wrong on all the details, but I don't care. It was fun to watch and it keeps you on the edge of your seat on how the Draft is going to turn out...
Rated 13 Jun 2015
30
12th
Why? Why choose the Browns? They can't win even if they have a team with the ability to win. Why make it complete fiction? In the off season actual players do silly shit like Tough Season (brought to you by Lenovo). How about a movie how the Colts actually tanked an entire season to draft Andrew Luck(in Tough Season). Then it can say based on a true story, make up a bunch of dramatized bullshit, and then watch the bucks roll in because the movie might actually show a game. Hire me Hollywood.
Rated 06 May 2014
50
7th
All these people are very very bad at their job and completely unprepared. Most of them are white, rich Americans so I think this is the most accurate depiction of the American workforce ever put on film.
Rated 11 Apr 2014
40
31st
Draft Day is a buzzer-beater film, one in which all of the drama and tension boils down to the final few minutes. The problem with this, especially here, is that there's very little leading up to the finale that's worth seeing, and much of it actually weakens the impact that such a conclusion could have. The characters are shallow, the performances are nothing special, and it's so predictable and formulaic that it becomes a bore, even during its ending.
Rated 07 Oct 2014
91
70th
1279: good!
Rated 14 Sep 2017
4
72nd
I know absolutely nothing about football, and yet this one had me in my seat. I kept waiting for the line "based on a true story"... *Good
Rated 07 Sep 2014
50
23rd
Maybe the corniest movie of 2014, but they made the Seahawks look stupid which I enjoyed.
Rated 03 Feb 2016
65
73rd
Quite good.
Rated 05 Aug 2014
3
65th
I don't care whether or not, this is how it's done in real life. I simply love this kind of movie, and I simply love football. I was excellently entertained! - Good
Rated 01 Aug 2014
70
33rd
easy to watch movie. but pretty thin sub plots and cheesy line delivery.
Rated 04 Aug 2014
55
32nd
Every subplot in the film could've been eliminated entirely, as they had absolutely nothing to do with the main story or plot.
Rated 07 Mar 2015
5
25th
An insightful glimpse into the scouting and management of an NFL team leading up to "draft day", with Costner and the rest of the charismatic men in suits driving forward a briskly paced screenplay spiced with split screen phone calls and unique NFL city title screens, and given depth by brief glimpses into the lives of potential draftees. GM Sonny's irrelevant and unnecessary personal side plot is the only thing that mars this otherwise concise and engaging sports business drama.
Rated 31 Jul 2014
20
8th
worse than i imagined
Rated 25 Jan 2015
43
10th
Another failed comeback attempt by Costner. The sports themed drama is safe ground for him, but Draft Day is neither as smart or well written as Moneyball and it isn't as funny and entertaining as his earlier films like Field Of Dreams. The end result is a rather pedestrian and indifferently directed film by Reitman--who hasn't made a good film in 25 years--that tries to build tension around an inherently unexciting topic: the NFL draft selection. For diehard Costner and/or NFL fans only.
Rated 02 Aug 2015
80
86th
Ending was pretty brilliant and it had a lot of good fun within it. The romance and the mother parts about it were bleh though.
Rated 13 Jun 2015
10
2nd
An obstinate male's fantasy where simply hiking up your khakis and feeling you're right, makes you right. Acting decisively resolves intractable problems. The plotlines wrap up with such unrealistic/nonsensical wish-fulfillments that it insults intelligence. The emotional cues are so corny/templated that it insults good taste. The bit actors are horrendous. The music is standard and uninspired. It's a retarded, artless, shameless, brainless, prostate-enlarged response to 2011s Moneyball.
Rated 11 Mar 2019
60
58th
ger; [draft day]; der manager eines erfolglosen football-teams soll die auswahl an neuen spielern vornehmen - und das unter starkem druck von allen seiten.;
Rated 19 May 2019
20
7th
Yeah but the Mamet version I was picturing kills
Rated 11 Mar 2021
77
73rd
Did I overrate this? Yes. Did it seem unrealistic even to a non-football fan like me? Yes. Did I still super-really enjoy it? Very much yes.

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