Million Dollar Arm
(2014)
Directed by Craig
Gillespie this film based on a true story stars Jon Hamm, Suraj
Sharma, Madhur Mittal, Lake Bell and Bill Paxton. A sports agent that
is struggling to run his own agency plans a last ditch effort to make
some money by finding an Indian that can play professional baseball.
Traipsing through the
usual clichés of the genre there is little of originality in this
“learn people are more important than money” story. While the
film does fairly well not becoming overly sentimental it does come
with a huge slice of cheese and trades heavily on stereotypes. There
is some annoying shaky camera work and disappointingly the big name
supporting cast in Paxton and Arkin are underused.
2/5
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