Life is a contact sport and football is life when three-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone and a dynamic acting ensemble explore the fortunes of the Miami Sharks in Any Given Sunday.

At the 50-yard line of this gridiron cosmos is Al Pacino as Tony DAmato, the embattled Sharks coach facing a full-on blitz of team strife plus a new, marketing-savvy Sharks owner (Cameron Diaz) whos sure Tony is way too Old School.

An injured quarterback (Dennis Quaid), a flashy, bull-headed backup QB (Jamie Foxx), a slithery team doctor (James Woods) and a running back with an incentive-laden contract (LL Cool J) also provide some of the stories that zigzag like diagrams in a playbook.

And throughout, theres the awesome spectacle of motion, sound and action orchestrated into Oliver Stones most electrifying film in years.

A dazzling spectacle (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone).