intensely dramatic but not emotional gripping

Rating: 5/10 (10 January 2013)

An intensely dramatic sports movie, centered around a little sport in America known as baseball. A tale of a wrinkly baseball scout well preceded his career peak and may face it's end as his contract faces expiration. Aiming to prove that there's still some oil in his tank, Gus played by the always capable Clint Eastwood, intends to scout the high school player eligible for first pick in this year's draft.
On the way, he is forced to indulge in his daughter's presence, Mickey, played by the lovely Amy Adams, who's on the verge of nailing a partners position at her firm! Risking all that, Mickey accompanies her father in his baseball adventure but her presence later is seen as an assistant in the scouting procedure. Little did they know that a white knight awaited them there, scouting for the red sox that have in their possession the precious number one pick in the draft. A knight, namely, Johnny played by Justin Timberlake.
An "emotional gripper" does not hit the nail with this film. It was most certainly gripping, feeling the heart beats accelerating as time elapses on this 111 minute movie. However, this film had the ability to reach heights of drama, heights that could certainly be reached by utilizing a treasuries talent possessed by Clint Eastwood. They have shown moments of grumpiness like table throwing or car crashing that have been experienced in the initial moments of the movie. It was obvious that the screenwriter was introducing us to his grumpiness but not consistently keeping it a factor; Showing poor character profiling. let's not take anything away from them, but it was simply and bluntly not enough! There were moments where I contradicted my thought of the approach taken by the screen writer Randy Brown. He has shown moments where he inherited a simple grumpy, Gus, like the table banging scene in the dinner. And he has shown a free, and blunt character like in the scene where he breaks the ice between Mickey and Johnny and bluntly suggests to go on a date. This fluctuation in character profiling is common in human beings but at what heights to go is what determines the fluctuation's effective resemblance of life. Gus is a grumpy father who has experienced a near to complete, sexual assault on his daughter, that resulted in her being sent to her aunt's in her childhood. Therefore, that would result in a "unnacurance and too much forceful acts" on who she dates. This was shown initially with the guy in the bar but afterwords it was not shown with Johnny. In the end Randy brown has reinforced the obvious, his debut as a screenwriter has resulted in too many rookie mistakes.
Randy brown has shown too many typical, cliché moments that are somewhat dull. The chain events, the outcome of results all seems to be in a manner that he intended and wanted to. It's is not within life's capabilities to offer results soully based on what humans desire, in life some obstacles arise and problems occur that we do not overlook nor envision, but it is the choices we make that destroy those obstacles. That is what I always say on screen writing, the authenticity of the script is how well it resembles life and how obstacles coherent and not artificial. In this film the outcomes where crystal clear that they where what the writer wanted, not where life intended them to be. The outcome of the baseball player's faults set by Gus to be proved correct in the end. The outcome like Phillip Sanderson being fired, Gus getting offered a new contract, Mickey offered the partners role, Johnny and Mickey end up together. No obsolete obstacles were set; it is these outcomes that remind us, movie viewers, that what we are watching is a movie. That is a fault despite its truthfulness. A movie should be so lifelike that we should forget it's a movie and be so gripped to its events, to its characters, as if we were sitting silently in a car stalking their every move! The acting crew is what I haven't found trouble in, hardly the best aspect of the movie. The Clint, Amy, Justin trifecta worked so perfectly together and could feel the spark and chemistry between them. Amy Adams related well with her clothing, reflected her elegance and presence in a baseball match so remarkably. Clint Eastwood, you ask? Nothing to say really, as proved by his character that he still has some fuel in his tank, Clint Eastwood proved that his tank is full and ready to roll! Justin Timberlake was effectively portrayed the least, yet adhering to his charm and knowledge of baseball so well, an encouraging performance by him.
Not long ago baseball movies and sport movies made their debut in the Oscars. Not so surprisingly it wasn't trouble with curve and nor will it be. Moneyball nailed a total of 6 Oscar nominations, a sport movie similar to trouble with the curve. So what's the difference, what makes money ball special. What does money ball have that trouble with the curve doesn't? Simply, consistency! Money ball has developed a loophole-free character profiling of brad Pitt's character. Indeed there a fluctuation in his character, but they jumped up and down within the allowed space of his character! Gus's character had more space, but wasn't utilized properly. Moreover, the chain of events were not set according to the screenwriter's likings and dis-likings because this was a true story the life like effect development was that much required to put an effort to, because it's already there, to be frank.
In the end it was an entertaining 111 minutes, if you're looking to test your knowledge in good movies, this would do the trick. If you're looking for a dramatically gripping roller coaster this is NOT your movie.