Inmates take on the guards in a football game at a prison. In the opening scene it is established that Reynolds is an arrogant and misogynistic ex pro football player. And he's supposed to be the good guy. The film is supposed to be a comedy but any attempts at humor fall flat. The script and direction are both inept. There's a football game that takes up about 45 minutes of the film and it's clichéd and poorly executed, with random and distracting use of split screen. The final drive by the convicts doesn't even make sense, as Reynolds purposely garners unsportsmanlike penalties on two consecutive plays while trying to win the game.
Review of The Longest Yard
