COULD Ah! SHOULD Ah! WOULD Ah!...But it didn't Ah

Rating: 7/10 (20 May 2000)

Actually Kevin Costner was not bad at all in this film, I think by and large he works in baseball films nicely. He did a good job in this film....the story was fine...well o.k, it was good enough....but the characters..specifically Kelly Preston's Character Jane Aubrey just did not work for me. For example I remember thinking what a wonderful poignant and powerful addition Glenn Close was in Natural, How integral she was to that story. Kelly Preston's Character in this film to me was like a canker sore on a gum boil, after the second scene with her one wondered if .... Billy Chapel (Kevin Character) was a pseudo masochistic....and by the end of the movie her character had pronounced elements of several degrees of psychological in balance....and I found myself thinking..."Hmmm that's just what he needs after quitting the game he loved for 19 years, is a wife he can go to therapy 3 times a week with....What a retirement plan huh? Anyway, some of the characters were interesting, but "Jane" wasn't one of them and I found myself grinding my teeth toward the end of the film. It should ah been a whole lot better film. It could ah and would ah been perhaps if they had cut Kelly (Jane)s part, and perhaps left the young girl, that actress who played her daughter....written her perhaps as Kevins daughter? She was just as complex with out the angst and far more believable, or at least a nicer less disfunctional feast for the pallet.