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| Created: | Thu Jan 28 1993 |
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If I had to use one word to describe this film, I'd have to say "cute" (though I don't know why :-). Tom Selleck plays a New York Yankee baseball player who is displaced by a hot new ball player, so he gets traded to a Japanese team. So Tom "Jack Elliot" goes Japan and has a little trouble fitting into the disiplined Japanese way of the game. There is also the standard love affair that movie makers feel they must throw in. I was really surprised seeing I seem to remember this bombing when when it had come out. Guess some things must be better on home video. Thumbs up. ps: I'm not a baseball fan but I enjoyed it just the same, in case anyone is worried you have to like baseball to enjoy the film.
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| 136.1 | He also does obnoxious well. | 12116::MDNITE::RIVERS | Fri Apr 23 1993 12:58 | 19 | |
Cute about does it. Manages to not do the American vs. Japanese thing
too much (surprise, surprise, I expected a lot more than they did
show), didn't make the Japanese look bad, didn't make the American's
look bad, didn't play up much how the Japanese are "taking over
everything, ya know" sort of thing movies of this ilk tend to do, and
so forth. Minimal warm and fuzzy Learning Experiences for Both Sides.
Was a bit fluffy and contrived at points, didn't buy the love story
much, and am impressed with how large Tom Selleck is. He really needs
to get the damned bat off his shoulder when he's trying to hit, though.
Cute. I guess. Not exactly the Natural (as far as baseball movies
go), but then again, Tom Selleck is no Robert Redford.
**.5 out of ****
kim
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| 136.2 | A major let-down, but not Tom Selleck's fault | TNPUBS::NAZZARO | Boston Shootout - June 18,19,20! | Tue May 04 1993 12:07 | 12 |
Disappointing describes this movie for me.
The baseball scenes had no flow; you got no sense of a season
progressing, or even a game's progress. You never knew the score,
the inning the situation for the batter (for example, two on, two out,
down a run). That seriously detracted from the story. The seemingly
obligatory love story detracted from the movie also. To me, the plot
should have been coping with a foreign country while playing a native
game. Instead, it turned into how many cliches can we cram into a
two hour movie.
NAZZ
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