Jerry Maguire is essentially a story about one man's redemption and journey of self-discovery. The only problem? It never actually happens and by the end you've been cheated out of your money. Basically this sports agent gets tired of the greed that pervades his industry so he goes off to run his own company, free of that greed. Yeah right. By the end of the movie, everyone is just as greedy as ever and the only difference is that Cruise is now in business for himself instead of for someone else. His star athlete is just as obnoxious as he was at the start of the film as well, yet we're somehow supposed to be rooting for these people! I know, I don't get it either. Top all that off with a healthy dose of Renee Zellweger as one of the most boring and unsexual female leads of all time and you're starting to see where this crap is going. Oh, I almost forgot, there's a really ugly and annoying kid in it too, because all shitty Hollywood movies need that right?
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The other major problem is that its never quite sure exactly what type of film it wants to be, and generally fails at being any. It's not serious enough to be a drama, not funny enough to be a comedy and too girly to be a sports film. Essentially, it fails on every level possible yet still managed to make $150 million at the box office, which just proves there's a lot of stupid people out there. Cuba Gooding Jr. also won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his laughable performance, which just adds more fuel to the "Academy has Down Syndrome" fire. Seriously, if Tom Cruise's character had become a jizz mopper it would have made more sense and probably been more productive than what he ended up doing here. It also would have made for a much more interesting film, because the thought of Tom Cruise mopping up jizz is infinitely better than anything this film has to offer.
Tomorrow, a supposedly great actress in a supposedly great performance supposedly shows us her cleavage before supposedly winning an Academy Award.