Did we really need The Bad News Bears remade? Keanu Reeves and his latest film, Hardball, answer with a resounding no!
Hardball has so many bad points that I don’t even know where to start. Reeves’ character Conor is completely emotionless. Surprised? Still these inner-city kids fall in love with him. Conor knows nothing of baseball except how to bet on it, yet these kids get good at playing it. For a while I was waiting for Santa to arrive and announce this was Miracle On 184th Street.
Even the occasional humor falls as the rest of this film implodes around it. From beginning to end, this movie is a cliché. It’s color by numbers film-making at its worse. I wanted to cry out of frustration that Hollywood continues to be so stupid, ignoring that viewers are smarter than this. Keep your money, show Hollywood they can do better, and they need to do better because eight bucks for this kind of garbage is not fair. We should pay for what the movie is worth. If they had to charge admission for this, just buying a tub of popcorn would qualify you for admittance.
+ charlie craine
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