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Title: A Disappointment Overall
Review: For Love of the Game has its moments, but overall disappoints. The love story is cliched as hell, but some will enjoy it. The baseball scenes are good, but the players just didn't seem like major leaguers to me. Also, I found the announcers at the game (Vin Scully and someone else) kind of annoying. Their banter just didn't ring true.Costner's performance is marginal. One of the central plot elements is his character's balance of the two loves of his life--Preston's character and baseball. Baseball has always been the clear number one, but he finally realizes during his final game as a player that, hey, maybe he does have room for a woman. Convenient timing there, Kevin!If the movie was around 1:30 long it would have been a whole lot better. The simple plot just didn't support a two hour plus run time.
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