Trouble With the Curve fails to cross the curve of being original

Rating: 4/10 (7 October 2012)

"Clint Eastwood has just fallen even further into the grave that once was his career with his latest attempt at acting"
Gus (Clint Eastwood) is an aging baseball scout who is also slowly losing his eyesight. His daughter Mickey (Amy Adams) try's to help with his scouting and in his everyday life. Gus's career does not seem to going the best because his co-workers believe that he has outgrown the game but Gus still believes that he can hear the way the game is played compared to most scout's who judge it by looking. One of those other scout's is Johnny (Justin Timberlake) and ex player who ends up falling for Mickey as the two develop a relationship over the movie.
This is the first time Clint has not directed himself acting since his beginning in acting, instead it is directed Robert Lorenz who has been the co-director for many of Eastwood's films so he might have directed it himself. It is written by Randy Brown a first time screenplay writer, these two guys do not really add much to this very poor telling of a father/daughter relationship movie that has been so many times and by better filmmakers over the years. The biggest problem with this film is the writing, a main example of this is the reactions Gus gives most of the time which is not words but noises that the actor makes.
The main performance by Clint Eastwood is very bad because I know that Eastwood can do better but I felt like he was too good for this film and it makes me mostly sad that he went back on his previous statement that Grand Tarino would be his final acting performance by giving us this one which is not a way to maybe end your acting career. Amy Adams is the one bright point because she makes the most of a nothing role, her character a lawyer who spends too much time with her father felt to TV movie to me because for most of the film she spent her time telling her dad that he should not have let her go which just proves the talents of Adams are wasted on this film. Justin Timberlake is very bad because he is just there to be a romance for Adams, Timberlake is a bad actor in my opinion making films that are bad worse by his presence. Other actors wasted include John Goodman, Matthew Lillard and Robert Patrick.
The main storyline of the relationship is badly written but the worst part of this film is it try's to include some kids playing the game, old friends of Gus and also the worst of all which blindness of Gus which is never fully explained and it's conclusion is saying when you judge baseball you must hear the player and not watch. I really did not like this film because I felt it tried to hard and wasted the amazing talents of Amy Adams by putting her on screen with lesser actors Timberlake and Eastwood.
MOVIE GRADE: E+ (MVP: Amy Adams)