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'THE Express" is a decent football movie, just about good enough to be the 40th best episode of "Friday Night Lights" . . . which has aired 39 episodes. Rob Brown, a likable if bland actor with an eager apple-pie face, plays Ernie Davis, who shook off poverty and racism to follow in Jim Brown's urgent footsteps in the Syracuse University football program in 1959. Thanks to the gruff-but-fair-ness of his only mildly racist coach (Dennis Quaid, borrowing Kevin Costner's look from "JFK"), Davis took the team and his own career to places where even Brown, whose number he wore, had not gone. Lots of uplifting music and isn't-this-dramatic camera work (half the games seem to take place in either total darkness or stabbing rains) take things exactly where you expect them to go, until a surprisingly effective and emotional climax. If... [read full story]
