It should have been called Death Wish.

Rating: 10/10 (30 March 2019)

Revenge against his father's failures in the guise of his career. He wants to scramble the pieces and find a way to pick them up perfectly, as if swiping left and right on his regretful past. The owner was right to quarrel, seeing him play god with so many fates on the line. The ghost returns so they pass over the QB. The mistake was right, sort of the father's forgiveness. Often you get it with privilege or unexpressed intelligence, that desire to create problems since life can't match your pace or intensity; it ends, usually, in catastrophe and death. Costner is so right for that; and for how most actors his age now sleepwalk through roles, he's been sleepwalking them for three decades, for him somehow it still feels there's a careful craft. He is addicted to 'life as a game.' The love interest was him gone wrong. The other GMs are comically idiots and can't keep up with him and want to know what he knows that the rest of them don't--it's a scripting convenience, but the 'serendipity' is why we go to theaters. It takes pain to learn.