Satisfying ending, but a little monotonous getting there

Rating: 6/10 (17 May 2020)

This was really boring and mostly uneventful. The chemistry between Amy Adams and Clint Eastwood helped save it somewhat, while a particularly satisfying (yet cliche) ending redeemed things too.
The Justin Timberlake part of the storyline was filled with a lot of cringe and just seemed rather irrelevant to the rest of things. The film explored a lot of a rocky father-daughter relationship - baseball just happened to be the backdrop to it all.
There were a few too many characters to dislike. The main baseball character was hard to watch, and while things paid off towards the end, it took far too long getting there. This felt like a 3 hour film. Perhaps baseball fans who understand many of the references and names-dropped will enjoy it more.
I'm glad Clint Eastwood has since starred in The Mule because this would've been a fairly pedestrian and bland way for him to go out. He plays the typical gruff, masculine Eastwood character here - with majority of the film's humour relying on it a bit too much.
By all means, give it a go if you're a die hard Eastwood fan and into baseball. It has a heart which ultimately rises above some of the blandness, though it's not a film I'll watch again.