The Natural

Rating: Null/10 (16 April 1999)

This is a film that whisks you right off you feet and keeps you in the air throughout the entire thing. Every camera shot is timed. Every angle is covered. Every chord of music from the great Randy Newman is majestic. Redford is the Arthurian like hero of the New York Knights who "lived for a dream that wouldn't die." The lighting is also quite wonderful in the film. It captures Redford like it has never captured him before. We see the age. We see the lines, but we still admire him. We still dream as his Roy Hobbs does. Dream stories make great motion pictures. It gives us something to dream of.