Akin to chewing the same piece of gum for 2+ hours

Rating: 5/10 (15 May 2000)

This movie was like chewing on a stick of gum. When you first put it in your mouth and bite down on it, it's full of flavor and delicious. Two hours later, though, it's just a wad of tasteless sticky goo, the next bite is as tasteless as the last, and you wonder why you wanted it in the first place. For Love of the Game starts out snappily enough, with Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston portraying interesting, attractive characters about whom you want to know more. But midway through the film, character development ceases entirely, and by the end you can't figure out why Costner and Preston were attracted to one another in the first place. This movie drags along at a mind-numbing pace and is too long, and the ending is as predictable as they come.