Video: Any Given Sunday

Herald rating: * *

Running time: 170 mins

Rental: Today

Review: Ewan McDonald

Oliver Stone turns his paranoid lens on American pro football in a movie that runs longer than the Superbowl.

Al Pacino is Tony D'Amato, who's trying to coach the Miami Sharks through a losing streak and into the playoffs.

Jamie Foxx is Willie Beamen, the third-choice quarterback who becomes first-choice when the two guys above him are carried off on stretchers in the same game.

The team's owner was a sports legend but he's dead and control of the franchise has passed to two cliches, his know-it-all daughter (Cameron Diaz) and martini-sozzled mother (Ann-Margret).

More guest stars than an NFL squad could fit on the bench but the story is lost under fancy editing and diversions.