Has its moments but mostly formulaic and dull

Rating: 5/10 (10 June 2015)

Has its moments but mostly formulaic and dull.
The (true) story of how a US sports agent goes to India to find baseball pitchers, stages a competition to unearth them, takes the two winners' back to the US and tries to get them contracts with MLB teams.
From the start the movie feels trite and overly sugary. Yes, the setting is fairly original but it just feels like we've been down this road before. Maybe it because it is told in a made-for-TV/kids sort of way.
The movie is not without its upsides though. There are some funny moments and the John Hamm-Lake Bell relationship was interesting.
For all its portrayal of a reasonably important event in baseball history, the movie just feels very flat.