A Shot at Glory (2000)

Football and Scotland
If I am not mistaken, this could be the only movie about football in Scotland not to be about hooligans or riots. Even with Duvalls spurious accent, this movie is good.

Should have gone the Disney Sports movie formula
First off; I give this 4 stars, 4 stars in your sports film genre; 4 stars since there are not many soccer/footy movies out there and it is deserved and despite it's blemishes still has redeeming qualities to it; but if I were rating it in terms of movies in general; sure, it would probably merit 3 stars.

It is absurd I agree, the premise of the film that a team may move out of town as has happened in the USA with various sports teams, let alone move to Ireland;

But I think this movie could have been improved; the team needed motivations to win, one was to stay in their little Scottish town of Kilnockie; maybe it would have been more believable if the American owner Keaton had threatened Duvall's coaching character with being fired if the club did not have more success.

A bit more could have been made of the Celtic/Rangers rivalry; also, though it doesn't have to be wholely a film for the family, quite a few of the "f" words and other scenes could have easily been omitted and I believe it would have been better; if the DVD box claims it to be like a "Hoosiers with rowdier fans" then why not go into that direction even more? Maybe even take a page out of the Disney sports movie formula with such worthwhile watching movies as Invincible or Cool Runnings.

Good shots of football being played in the land where it was been among the top sports for a hundred years; still a decent cultural flavor of Scotland and their league can be found in this movie.

Lastly, I assume that the [sub] mark, may signify subtitles; listed on one of the DVDs; and I think, many could use this for parts of this movie; I love a good Scottish accent but I want to understand what is going on too!

a great sports movie
I enjoy anything that stars robert duvall - his efforts in this movie were well rewarded.