Premise: A
former baseball prodigy gets a second chance at the big leagues when he goes on
an impossible run.
I'm sorry, but I just have to talk about the thing
that everyone brings up about this movie. How old does this movie think Robert
Redford is? By my math, he was 52 when this movie was released. He'd playing a
19 year old and a 35 year old at different points...What?! I'm all for
some cognitive dissonance, and I get that they didn't have de-aging technology
like they do now. I need a reason for casting the actor in the first place
though. The movie never catches up to Redford's actual age. It's not something
where they wanted a narrative consistency as he aged into something closer to
his actual age. Nope. Someone just thought that was a good idea. This
distracted me throughout the movie. I had trouble appreciating anything else
about it, because I was too fixated on that.
It's a fine sports movie though. Had the role been
played by Tom Hanks or someone like that, I'm sure I'd appreciate even more
about it. Swap Redford and Costner in their mid-80s baseball movies and that
would probably work better.
I did appreciate how hopelessly sentimental the
movie is. I love how mythical it makes the creation of the bat, and the whole
thing is soaked in nostalgia.
Verdict: Weakly Don't Recommend
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