Last year I went to Provo to meet some friends and enjoy a writers conference. While I was walking from the hotel to the convention I passed by a film production company. It was called Angel films, and they make mostly faith based films. They’re relatively new but have really started getting bigger. Who would have guessed they’d do a bio pic about Mike Flynt the 59 year old college football player. Let alone that it would have Michael Chiklis, Rob Corddry, and Mary Stuart Masterson? This is just the start of the iceberg for them as they’ve released a few modern westerns with Neil McDonough and have that new Young Washington movie coming to theatres here this year.
All this to say, I liked The Senior. It’s not my typical fair as my atheist ways usually steer me away from faith based films, but this one was actually decent. Yeah there was some bible talk, but it wasn’t over the top and didn’t sidetrack from the plot to preach to you. It was just part of the film. And yeah if Mike found god and that helped him get over his daddy issues and anger and allow him to heal and treat his family and teammates better, good for him. Of course therapy years before would have probably been better, but c’est la vie.
The idea that a 59 year old would play NCAA football is crazy. They do it justice though. An although some things are a bit unbelievable, some of them happened.
The film even made a joke about being a cheaper version of Rudy, which is way too accurate and intentionally and maybe unintentionally hilarious.
Overall the is a higher quality film than you would expect from a small production company. Not a bad watch if it interests you at all, but not worth going out of your way for it.
5/10
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