Poor

Rating: 2/10 (18 May 2014)

Barry Levinson is kind of the specialist of films resembling more poor TV movies, his cinematographic feel being close to zero, and he proves it once again with The Natural.
The story of this baseball player hardly could have been more badly told, there is absolutely no coherence in the narration, the scenes follow one another completely disjointly, with no clear line, and to make things worse, some elements of the story are hardly believable, for example the player making his comeback after a 18 year break, or his level of play fluctuating with his relationships.
The movie is terribly flat, the characters have no dimension, the game scenes have no emotions, no ambitions, and are peppered with ridiculous slow motions and a dispensable grandiloquent music.
The Natural is typical of the American director, a poor movie one will forget as soon as finished.