leatherheads try so hard . try to be light hearted . try to be a comedy . try to be a love affair . let see and it try to be a his girl friday by way of the sting by way of it happen one night by way of a dozen sport movie . ala and try isn not do and the movie be as soggy a the last game field . a fan of movie would watch the big fight scene in the speakeasy between the duluth bulldog and some soldier and realize that the fight that john ford stag with such style and verve and humor in movie like the quiet man or donovan reef and or the searcher may have seem easy to do but obviously aren not . i would bet george clooney think channel john ford would be easy a well . how hard could it be represent masculinity run amok and punch and bottle break over head and an imperturbable piano player . just put it up there on the screen with some happen music . sorry . it take a master to make fight scene flow . movie aren not wish into existence . humor be hard . romance be hard . slapstick a lost art . i once read that you never want to sit too close to a ballet performance . something about not want to prick the fantastic bubble of the performance by hear the thud of the dancer foot or the grunt of the lift . this movie be like that . all strain and good intention and handsome actor and nice set and but it thud through it pace rather than gallop like the original galloping ghost and red grange and who the movie be loosely base on .