I'm not a big sports film fan. Very few of them break out of the genre's conventions and that pisses me off. However after constant badgering from some of my friends to watch this I thought I'd give it a whirl.

Considering how highly rated this film is I expected it to do something different to usual sports films. I don't think it did. It was predictable at every turn, right down to the final seconds. That doesn't have to…