Ridiculous Language Spoils What Could Have Been A Decent Story

Rating: 1/10 (15 September 2007)

The profanity and blasphemy is so bad in this movie I could barely watch half of it. In fact, I finally quit....before the seventh-inning stretch. By then, my senses had been assaulted enough with the gratuitous profanity. Much of it wasn't necessary, and I can put up with a lot. You have Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin and John Legusimo all talking like pigs right from the first sentence of the movie.
You know, it might have been a good movie about greedy baseball players and an obsessed fan, but come on - in the first 10 minutes alone I heard 20- f-words and 10 usages of the Lord's name in vain! That is ridiculous. I think De Niro is one of the top actors of his generation, but when he plays a role like this, he's wasted. I expect ultra-profanity from those other three low-life actors but kind of hoped De Niro was above this, except for his Martin Scorcese crime films.
Even if you can stand the verbal abuse, the story was not appealing because there are no likable characters. Also, did anyone notice the blaring music, which was obnoxiously loud. I have to listen to "Nine Inch Nails" screaming? No thanks!
As a baseball fan, I was looking forward to an interesting film but this was garbage through-and-through. If I was an umpire, I would have tossed all these actors out of the game by the early innings.