| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | Cinema |
An unfocused picture that really cannot settle down towards achieving a coherent emotional narrative: The story of the rivalry of two warring siblings.
The movie also refuses to get involved beyond mere White tokenism with the issue that no Blacks nor Mexicans - no matter how good nor how American - were ever invited to join the North American baseball league shown here. Instead, the movie meanders for over two hours in the highly-amusing antics of the brilliantly-funny Tom HANKS and the especially-beautiful and talented Geena DAVIS: A White-supremacist pact-with-the-devil that affords many belly laughs.
Ultimately, this movie has no real soul other than that of the White Europeanized feminism that condemns the very discrimination it practices. We are presented with historical data in a dramatic context but - like most school history lessons - this rarely rises above the relating of dry facts. The screenwriters simply could not find a dramatic core to their story upon which to hang his history lesson because they are more concerned to not offend a White audience.
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