brknaydogan01 Awesome! Great performance by Finn Wittrock... Based on true story. If you want to spend quality time you should watch this wonderful film.

Pascal Charpentier This is a film about nothing. The idea of a screenplay is to have conflict to have some kind of goal that has to be achieved and obstacles standing in that way. But here this fact is just ignored until 30 minutes before the end of the movie! For 60 minutes it is just goodie two shoes. Our main character is loved by anybody and can do everything and is always succeeding. That is just very poor screenwriting.But wait something has to be said about the cast too because the story maybe the biggest problem but the cast is no help either. Aaron Eckhardt once a great talent does fine most of the time even though that isn't saying much because there is not a lot to do. When it comes to the heroic speeches he really struggles and the two times when we see him as an older version of his role his acting is cringe worthy.And then there is Finn Wittrock. In case you didn't realize he is pretty you get it told a hundred times in this film. I know him from nothing else so I just hope it is the role but what he does I can not call it acting. Yes, the character is flat as a piece of paper but he delivers even simple lines so wooden. Do yourself a favor and don't watch this movie. I had the pleasure of watching "Rudy" a few days earlier. Everything this movie does "Rudy" makes right.

AudioFileZ What an emotional great ride My All American is. It's a beautiful movie about humanity using football as the vehicle. In that I don't see this as a football, or even sport, movie as it explores how greatness uses our world around us to which, yes, football is a part. It's the exploration of the human spirit and how it rises around the life one lives within.Freddie Stenmark was a true force of nature. The kind of person who is uplifting to all those in his sphere. He was a positive force who unrelentingly worked to overcome the deficiencies of being small in a tough world of football where size is, perhaps, valued on par with skill. That never stopped Freddie and the story of a life lived positively with grace is one for the ages.If a story were to use football as a backdrop it couldn't be better than the 1969 meeting of The University of Texas and the Arkansas Razorbacks. Texas coach Daryl Royal had handed Arkansas their only loss the previous year, but was not content with his team's record of 6 and 4 that year. The rivalry between these two teams, always heady, reached a fevered pitch for their 1969 meeting which would decide the national championship. It was a battle for the ages living up to it's advanced billing as The Game Of The Century as college football was also celebrating it's 100th year. As large a role as this game plays in the movie it's fitting ending is only a wonderful fulfilling within a greater story. It's this great story revolving around Freddie Stenmark's abilities and heart combined with coach Daryl Royal's vision and guidance that trumps the big game.My All American is one of the finest tributes to a fallen hero I've ever witnessed on celluloid. Aaron Eckhart's portrayal of coach Daryl Royal is wonderful. Smartly, the movie opens with an aged Royal giving an interview in which a young reporter asks which All American to come out of his system stood above all others. The answer is a perfect way to begin the re-telling of an inspirational story which could end with tremendous sadness, but celebrates how one player defined both the coach and team, and continues to do so. Special mention goes to Finn Whittrock's Freddie Stenmark. Whittrock honors the legacy with a moving, very realistic, look at one of football's all-time greats who deserves being remembered This is a movie, IMHO, that has such appeal that it should be seen by all…even those with no interest in football. A tremendous testament to a life well lived tragically cut short. It's not an understatement that in terms of sports meeting humanity this one stands with the classic "Pride of the Yankees". It's that good.

bkoganbing Although he only lived for 22 years on planet earth Freddie Joe Steinmark touched a whole lot of lives and still does today in the great state of Texas. He's their version of the Gipper for those University of Texas Longhorns.The film is done in flashback with Freddie's Knute Rockne, UT's coach Darrell Royal played here by Aaron Eckhart. Freddie Joe Steinmark did not make All American, but in Royal's mind he's his once and forever My All American.Finn Wittrock plays Freddie with a minimum of sentimentality who led that Texas team to its first national championship in a generation and then it's discovered he has one bad almost always terminal version of bone cancer. Both Wittrock and Eckhart are supported by an impeccably cast group of supporting players.To this day in Texas the Longhorns win for Freddie the way Knute Rockne had them win one for George Gipp. The film is also a winner.