A very b-o-r-i-n-g movie; and I like baseball and movies about it

Rating: 2/10 (24 December 2018)

This movie is extremely long and boring, and I am a person who likes baseball and movies about it! The character Roy Hobbs wanders through a series of events that have little connection and no motivation. Roy does not appear to have any reason whatsoever to play baseball or to be good at it.
Robert Redford as Hobbs looks bored, and he is stiff and wooden, just as he was during the worst moments of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, when he was young and inexperienced. The other big-name actors, such as Robert Duvall and Glenn Close, try hard but the script gives them nothing to work with. To make matters worse, this travesty is two hours and 18 minutes long.
The only thing remarkable is the period sets, costumes, cars, etc. Someone obviously worked hard on these items.
For a good move in the baseball genre, try For the Love of the Game (1999). It's not a great picture, but it is decent, and at least it has a plot that makes sense and characters with clear motivations.