Oliver Stone’s football saga as an overtly ambitious sporting melodrama

Oliver Stone's 1999 sports drama film Any Given Sunday is a most unconventional sports flick ever made. Stone's larger-than-life, energetic sports feature, showcasing the on and off field exploits of a professional football team known as the Miami Sharks, is a smorgasbord of intense sporting action, powerful melodrama, plethora of image flashes and head-bursting rock …