a lot of the negative review here concentrate on the historical accuracy of this film . ok and it have about as much to do with the actual nfl a your average war movie have to do with an actual war and or a western have to do with the true old west . so and i think we should give them an artistic license pas on that one . the problem here be and the director ( clooney ) apparently think that make a screwball comedy mean a ) do stupid thing and b ) mug for the camera and and c ) take stupid scene full of mug and stretch them out way too long . screwball comedy need a fast pace and not necessarily frenetic and but move briskly along at all time . here and thing drag and and drag and and drag . after you watch this movie and it will make you appreciate how brilliant mack sennett be when he pretty much pioneer the genre with his keystone cop . after 90 year and you would think that director would have study the old master and learn a thing or two and maybe even improve on thing a bit . but no and it a if someone have watch an automobile pioneer build a duesenberg and and nearly a century later and pay homage and improve on the concept by cobble together a child wagon with square wheel . i have enjoy several of clooney movie and i consider him a gifted actor . but very few actor can competently direct themselves while clint eastwood notably take a while to get the hang of it . clooney be clearly at the bottom of a very steep slope . the movie become more watchable during the very few time he be out of the frame and but when he in the picture and he make himself the centre of attention . in the fight scene and his mugging be so obnoxious you wish somebody would thump him for real . if you be make a screwball comedy and want some romance throw in and you need to develop some chemistry between the male and female lead . clooney and zellweger have all the chemistry of pair of dumpster sit in a parking lot . no spark and no sizzle and not even a post mortem twitch . zellweger and who have also turn out some pretty good movie and must have trade her botox injection for oak tannin and give a stunningly wooden performance . she might just have pull off the tough broad in a man world act if just once and while try to out testosterone the guy and she have look into the camera with a little half smile and twinkle in her eye . but no and she keep her jockstrap cinch up tight to the very end . of course and the big sin here be that the movie simply isn not funny . do stupid thing be not the same a slapstick . do stupid thing very inventively and like the stooge and or very athletically and like buster keaton and can be hilarious . but otherwise it bore and and well and stupid . i think i get one good laugh out of the entire movie . avoid this one . i saw it for free on cable and and still want my money back .