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2008
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Positive Reviews
34
Negative reviews
9
Average Rating
3.1
/5
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3.0
Viewers dont just forgive irascibility and barking dyspepsia in their movie coaches; they expect it.
Austin Chronicle
3.8
The formula is basic and durable, and when you hitch it to a good story, you can hardly fail.
Rogerebert
3.0
By the time The Elmira Express wins the Heisman trophy in 1962 the first black player to do so Davis seems to be held down by very little.
Ny Daily News
2.5
So how do you transform what is essentially a tragedy into an inspirational tale
Philly
4.0
Ernie Davis (Justin Martin) is an African American boy whose speed comes in very handy when racist bullies chase him.He is guided along the path of st ..
Spirituality And Practice
3.5
And, like all formulaic biopics, The Express sacrifices the details for the Big Picturehagiography without the humanity (wait, is that his girlfriend
Village Voice
3.8
Despite appealing performances and kinetic football scenes, the storytelling is mostly conventional, except for two outstanding set pieces.
Usa Today
3.5
It simply falls short of being a great movie.There is none of that lump in the throat feeling one gets from a football movie like Rudy.
Lariat
2.8
It hasnt done anything TERRIBLY wrong, but it hasnt done anything terribly right, either.
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
The film is predictable but inspiring, without going overboard into Brians Song tear jerking.
News Review
1.0
The screenplay is stewed in such pieties, served up as warm and homely as apple pie only theres no taste to it.
Independent
3.0
The View London Review out ofstarsRunning time:minsDirected by Gary Fleder, The Express is a biopic of college football hero Ernie Davis (played by Ro ..
View London
2.2
In The Express, Daviss story is milked for every drop of inspirational uplift.
Cs Monitor
3.6
This straightforward film spends its first hour as the cinematic equivalent of a young readers biography, the kind of thing a middle school kid would ..
Film Journal
2.5
The filmmakers are more interested in making a safely commercial football drama that doesnt deviate from the genres shorthand imagery and plot points.
Boston
3.0
Gary Fleders sporting drama has its heart in the right place but, sheesh, that title grows more ironic with each crawling minute.
Guardian
2.5
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
3.2
The movie is structured all wrong after the climactic Big Game, it rolls on for another 20 minutes but Quaid delivers near the end.When Davis becomes ..
Ew
3.0
While never as trailblazing as its subject, The Express is a worthy addition to the lengthy canon of sports biopics
Empire
4.0
The cast is also excellent, especially Brown; he manages to make Davis seem dignified but not dull, principled but never preachy and he completely sel ..
Common Sense Media
2.2
And this cleaned up, family friendly movie takes his story and injects it with a special kind of performance enhancing drug designed to strip away tro ..
Movies
3.8
Movie review: The Express Photo: Chuck Hodes, Universal Pictures Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Rob Brown in The Express, about Ernie Davis ..
Sf Gate
1.9
The Express is no worse than your average inspirational true life sports film.
Slant Magazine
1.9
A Cliffs Notes version of Ernie Davis life that turns everything he worked for into a Hallmark card.
The Movie Boy
3.0
And though its really no more different than the many other race fueled football movies of the last decade, The Express still manages to entertain.
Bullz-Eye
3.8
The film is a little scattershot in its presentation of non football aspects of Ernies life.
ReelViews
3.0
For fans of the game and one of its greatest young players The Express throws a cinematic touchdown.
Hollywood
2.8
The Express features its share of speeches, some of them quite articulate, but the face of racism is so ugly that Davis teammates dont have to say a t ..
Seattle Pi
2.5
Its a shame that a film that should pay homage to a man who was clearly a wonderful person should rely on a phony, Hollywood invented, story line of r ..
Tony Medley
3.1
Quaid earns his paycheck with a climactic halftime speech: Winning this one means nothing if you lose yourselves.
Groucho Reviews
2.5
The story of Ernie Davis is touching and tragic, and it does deserve to be told.
7M Pictures
3.1
But consider that a virtue in a movie content to teach familiar messages without overstating them.
The Star
2.8
The Express is an uplifting, high minded, nice looking, well intentioned, expertly performed and pleasantly inspiring football movie with one problem: ..
Oregon Live
4.4
Ridley Scotts movies have always betrayed his formative years in advertising; his films offer loads of surface pleasure, but they rarely have strong i ..
Movies Tv Guide
2.5
Many sports films start out with the handicap of being written by someone who thinks that the characters representing the sides need to be polarized a ..
Varia Gate
3.1
Otherwise this is a zero surprise story, strictly warm milk for the soul.
New York Post
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en ..
News Blaze
3.5
An uplifting historical sports drama primarily concerning racial injustice
Brian Or Ndorf
1.3
See how boring they could be.Thats how boring The Express becomes.
Waffle Movies
3.0
Ernies tragic endgame does take the film into overtime, but this is one biopic which neither feels overblown nor full of its own importance.Refreshing ..
Sky
2.0
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3.8
The Express is acted with magnetism, directed with conviction and edited with dash, setting Ernies story alongside archival footage from the civil rig ..
Chron
2.0
If you dont know, youd best avoid this civil rights meets sports flick cliche fest.
Metro
4.4
This tragic coda makes for a more poignant, less traditionally triumphant ending than sports films often have.
Decent Films
2.0
The Express is running on two rails at the same time. Theres sentiment, which is true. And theres sentimentality, which is not. At its best, The Expre ..
Tony Mack
2.8
The Express knows what made the man great. It just has difficulty embodying that greatness itself.
Flip Side Archive
2.5
The Express rarely touches the same highs and lows, rather playing out simply to its conclusion.
Future Movies
4.0
The Ernie Davis story has all the makings of a poignant, rousing triumph over adversity, but it blows it on every count.
Can Mag
3.0
But its a movie that rarely strays from its sports drama formula, something that robs the history and the tragic trajectory of the mans story of its h ..
Orlando Sentinel
3.8
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