brandonsullivan91 At first I just wanted to thumbs up the other 'bad' reviews to express my dislike. It baffles me that the majority of reviews with agreement from others are 'good'. The movie has an identity crisis. It has an odd desire to be a slapstick piece that lacks the timing or editing to get a laugh (from me). It also dragged, dragged, dragged, the unforgivable movie sin in my opinion. This happens when you do not create enough interesting moments in the plot, so you stretch out every scene to a tedious length. I'm not sure that the acting was so bad, just bad material mostly. No aspect of this movie is adequate enough for me to recommend. The sports scenes aren't very compelling because they are slapstick-esque and corny. The romance love triangle is not engaging, I could care less about all three of them. And it dragged! Did I mention that? Jeez! It's not a complete turd, but it does smell.

alsumrall2001 I saw this film again the other night and thought it was better the second go around as there were no preconceived expectations. It's a reserved celebration of the twenties, showing the optimism of the period after surviving the first great debacle of the century and the realization that something has regretfully become lost but also there was something new that ought to be experienced. It was a period transition and the film is true to that concept. It's more witty than funny and you need a bit of appreciation for the history of the period to fully enjoy this film. Unlike Clooney's voyage into the 1930's film, it isn't quite as over the top, but it doesn't have such a difficult period of history to overcome. You have to take this film for the narrow slice of time it covers, it doesn't look back and it doesn't look forward. The characters are not deep or larger than life, but this does not hurt the film as the story is in a relatively small pond. The film is more like strangers passing by and stopping and having a very pleasant conversation, then moving on...you are not going to take anything away from it other than feeling good. It gets a ten because it goes a road less traveled in a pleasant way and that is rare nowadays. If you are thoroughly grounded in the present, or are entrenched in only the low points of history, this film is not for you.

J_Charles Congratulations George Clooney. You've captured the 1920s era in a delightful period piece. The script is witty and there's several exchanges between the main characters that evoke memories of the 'golden era' of cinema. Even some of the scene setups are taken straight from the classics - the scene in the railway car with Clooney and Zellwegger taking turns opening and closing their drapes still works after all those years.The football scenes are played for laughs. You have to love a movie that starts its opening scene with a cow acting as interested spectator of a football game.There are some that argue that Clooney tried addressing too many themes int he same film. And there are others who argue that the plot is threadbare. I don't see how these two polar opposite extremes can exist in the same movie. And now that I've seen it for myself I'm glad I did.9/10

rajiraouf I became a fan of George Clooney watching him as Billy in The Perfect Storm. But I must say I watched this movie for its Renee factor much more than anything else.Leatherheadsis quite a conventional unconventional movie. It got no save the world plot, and yet has more than one plot intertwined within another series of plots. Just like ordinary life. The movie is quite subtle and has a plot of a suspected war hero, a failing football player, the birth of professional football and a teeny weenie romance as a side dish. Each scene seems honest and short. And sometimes shocking. There are no technicalities and the entire movie follows no particular rule of movie making or story telling. Just like the tagline says, this is a movie before the rules where there.Renee is a reporter sent to check the stories of an alleged war hero who now plays football but wants to study in Princeton. Clooney is struggling in football with a rough gritty team that's got all the usual comical characters. The forty year old man fights over the thirty old lady with the twenty year old boy. The villain is the new chief of professional football who brings in the rules to the game. There is one final football match that sets into concrete everyone's character. And the movie is over before you know it.Its a slapstick comedy in the 1920's. Its light and easily subject to too much criticism. Its worth a watch.