Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

tjgorman66 A fairly accurate representation of both High School; the peer pressures of sex, drugs and rock and roll so to speak and living in a depressed dried up steel town trying to make more of yourself, getting a degree and literally making all the right moves, although Cruise and Nelson are the marque stars the performances of Chris Penn and Lea Thompson are superb, 3 out of 4 stars

Saiyan_Prince_Vegeta This is a nice movie and a nice movie with Tom Cruise where he is the main actor. It's a movie about an american football player who wishes to get into a good college by being good at football. When I started watching it I thought it's gonna be a typical sports movie where the team loses at the beginning, but in the end of the movie they get really good and win the championship. This is not the case, the movie is not about that. It is more of a story of a football player and his conflict with the people who surround him.This is what I've learned in this movie: Sometimes when people are angry or emotional they might say something that they don't really mean and might regret later. So it is not worth starting a war and hating each other, but it is always worth giving people a second chance, but also checking yourself, checking if it wasn't your fault as well. Sometimes it's really hard to stay calm when you hate someone, but ** it is not worth burning the bridges **.Also after watching this movie I have an impression that if you are a good sportsman you don't really need to be smart and university will still keep you and give you a degree?

TheSteelHelmetReturns All the Right Moves begins with the triumphant synth rock melody of David Campbell's score accompanied by shots of grimy working class settings of train terminals and factories indicating that viewer is in store for a blue collar John Hughes films that has one foot in eighties cinema and the other still dipped in the obsessions with 70s New Hollywood. Tom Cruise is quite convincing as a working class jock while Lea Thompson as she only helps to bring up connotations of herself in Back to the Future and would seem more appropriate in a world of upper middle class WASPs like Growing Pains or Family Ties rather than the lurid Welcome Back Kotter universe of All the Right Moves. Perhaps Cruise needed a girlfriend who seemed a little sluttier but still had Thompson's vulnerability? Ally McSheedy? Chris Penn plays Cruise's less attractive jock pal and Craig T. Nelson establishes his typecast as a humourless coach and all three characters express similar desires very early in the film about 'moving on' and escaping their working class background. Knowing the direction that the manufacturing industry would take in the 80s this is probably an understandable goal. However, each character have obstacles preventing them from establishing that dream - some of which are intertwined. Lea Thompson contributes to this story by making Tom Cruise sexually frustrated during awkward love scenes. High school football is used as a metaphor for cooperating to exceed ones limits as detailed by Craig T. Nelson in a pre-game speech that would lead to him being fired if it were uttered today let alone ten years ago. It's at this point of the review, I wish to remind the viewer I have no idea how American Football works - all I know is people jump on each other and touchdown is a good thing. Anyway some play happens in the game that causes Cruise to be thrown off the team for disciplinary reasons and this all leads to a descent that includes being falsely framed for terrorising the neighbourhood and the last half hour of the film covers a number of other plot twists that occur from that one prior conflict along with a short resolution. With just under ninety minutes of run time All the Right Moves is a satisfyingly short rise and fall and rise story with an interesting mix of New Hollywood drama and the emerging 80s teen film genre.

tieman64 Directed by Michael Chapman, "All The Right Moves" stars Tom Cruise as a kid who seeks to escape the drudgery of small-town life by winning a football scholarship.Typically in such films, it's only our central hero who wishes to skip town. But in "Moves", everyone in the town is hoping for a scholarship or chance to flee. Because of this, they're all competing against one another, and we the audience are always aware that if one succeeds it's only at someone else's expense.Who would ordinarily be "the villain" of this picture, a football coach who kicks Cruise off the team, is thus painted in a sympathetic and complex light. He too is shown to only be acting in his own personal interests, all in the hopes of obtaining a career promotion. The end result of all of this is, yes, a typical fairy tale ending, but also a weird advocation for a kind of communal collaboration in which everyone learns to work as a team and stop trampling over one another.Beyond this the film is beautifully shot, captures the dreary, rain drenched ambiance of small town Pennsylvania, features a couple surprisingly raw dialogue sequences and drifts into issues like teen pregnancy and social determinism, issues which these flicks typically avoid. Cruise, young and per-fame, sells his role with conviction.7.9/10 – Despite a terrible last act, this odd little film is interesting in the way it merges the grit of 1970s cinema with the superficiality of 80s Hollywood. Worth one viewing.