I've seen better soap operas

Rating: 3/10 (30 June 2000)

Bull Durham & Field of Dreams: two excellent Costner baseball films. For Love of the Game, which had the potential to become the 3rd jewel in the crown falls painfully, lingeringly flat. They've managed miraculously to almost totally remove the suspense associated with a pitcher's attempt to throw a perfect game. By the time the conclusion is reached, you just don't care. The romance, which was the driving force behind Bull Durham is less than 2-dimensional, and, as with the outcome to the game...by the time the romance winds to the credits...the audience has managed to reach a state of almost total indifference.