The music score destroyed this film

Rating: 6/10 (28 February 2016)

I'm not a baseball fan, although occasionally a good baseball film goes down well. But I admire Robert DeNiro and very much enjoyed Wesley Snipes in his prime. So I really thought I would enjoy this film. You wanna know what RUINED it for me? Overbearing music. It was distracting to the dialogue. Maybe that explains why it was such a bomb at the box office.
It certainly wasn't the acting. Robert DeNiro is absolutely great as a man whose life is falling apart...losing his job and losing his son. And so he begins to obsess more and more about his favorite pastime -- baseball...and particularly his favorite player -- Wesley Snipes. OBSESSION...always a dangerous situation.
Wesley Snipes is excellent here as well, as a talented baseball player who realizes he is taking the game too seriously. Too bad he tells his rabid fan that! Result -- kidnapping! This film was when Snipes was near his peak.
Benicio del Toro is good in a limited role as a young and upcoming baseball player that meets the ire of DeNiro. John Leguizamo is quite good as Snipes' manager...cementing my belief that he was more a supporting actor than primary star.
I think the film has a good level of suspense, and I could have easily given it a "7", had it not been for the terrible score.