By the time Papale does make it the big game, it's as if the air goes out of the movie and all Core can do is punt.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2024

Even through the sepia-toned sanitization of the Disney production, you can't help but like and root for Vince Papale. His story gives the economically struggling city of Philadelphia and their Eagles what they needed at the right time: Hope.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2023

An entertaining underdog sports story

| Jun 29, 2020

INVINCIBLE should prove invincible at the box office. With football season around the corner this is the perfect pre-season game. Touchdown!!

| Nov 8, 2019

Inspiring sports-underdog story for tweens and up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Mark Whalberg is surprisingly good, delivering a likeness to the real Vince Papale that is uncanny.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 6, 2010

It may seem that Invincible takes too long to get to the football. But by the time it does get down to it, we've invested enough in Wahlberg and Kinnear to give a damn about the outcome of the all-important Big Game.

| Jan 22, 2010

I wonder how many more of these inspirational sports films we have to sit through in 2006.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 29, 2009

Screenwriter Brad Gann shares the guilt for this predictable cinematic travesty along with composer Mark Isham whose bombastic musical score is akin to hammering a nail with a shotgun blast.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 21, 2009

ricson (who doubles as cinematographer) has a good feel for urban grit and blue-collar dreams, and he gets good, unpretentious performances-especially from Wahlberg, who provides the movie's solid, dependable center.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

The script by newcomer Brad Gann hits all the right notes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Though familiar and cliched, Invincible succeeds in spite of itself because it is so technically well done and full of heart.

| Jul 10, 2007

Mating calls aside, the paint-by-numbers sports side of this picture is only likely to capture the imagination of kids under the age of ten.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 1, 2007

As far as sports films go, Invincible doesn't offer anything original or notable ... except Mark Wahlberg's performance.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 8, 2007

...Greg Kinnear is particularly engaging as Papale's coach...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 1, 2007

Invincible is a Walter Mitty tale, but a true one, a fantasy come to life.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 31, 2006

[A] solid, but predictable underdog sports story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

A film lacking Herzog's USP -- an ironic and regressive sense of the irreducible power of images -- 'Invincible' feels as though it has been devised by a scholar steeped in Herzog lore, but who at some crucial early stage mistook him for Istvan Szabo.

| Sep 28, 2006

There's a sugar coating to the way Papale's story unfolds, but not so much that you'll spoil your dinner.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 16, 2006

This 'chump-to-champ' story adheres to the 'Three R' formula: Part 'Rudy,' part 'Rocky,' with a dash of 'The Rookie' tossed in for good measure.

| Original Score: B | Sep 15, 2006