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Title: Sports movie at its worst
Review: How can someone even mention the brilliant 'Field of Dreams' together with this overlong, over-sentimental movie? This is the biggest waste of talent that I've encountered in quite a while - Sam Raimi, Basil Poledouris, those two are among the best in their professions. And what did they do? Well, let me put it this way: They took a popular sport, took every energy out of it (the Baseball-scenes are repeated endlessly, same style, again and again), added some of the worst dialogue ever and put a romance at the center of the story. That ain't so bad, but there's no chemistry between Costner and Wright-Penn. I could go on, but you get the point. At the end, you're happy it's over. No climax, just a needless 'happy end'. Sam Raimi used to be such a good director, and even in his lesser movies, he had his style. There's no style here. A flop, financially and critically, Sam Raimi move on... and give us a good 'Spiderman'.
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