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I know, I know...
I know Kevin Costner can't act his way out of a paper bag. I know he produced such cinematic horrors as Waterworld, and the Postman (shudders). "Ride Postman, Ride!" I will say this film is thankfully not at those levels. Although the hollywood drama (with all the saving grabs) of the perfect game is a little much.

The film is definitely thoughtful and entertaining. I liked the baseball dialogue, and the symbolism in the film. The flashbacks, which I first thought was going to be annoying worked well. The anti-Yankee rhetoric is ok by me as well. A perfect game against thrown against the yankees by a washed up pitcher is definitely entertaining and something to get behind.

The chemistry between Costner and Kelly Preston is a tad weak in my opinion. It's hard to find that appeal these days that rivals the golden era of cinema. The worse part of the film is when he is stading outside of her home in the rain (like a stalker) when she is inside entertaining a metrosexual artsy fellow. What a loser! Anyways the film is entertaining because it deals with real life pain and drama, although it goes over the top at times. I like when Costner is sobbing at the end after the perfect game because life is often about realization and reflection, and the movie pushes home a run there.

Classic
This movie is def one of my favorites, it ranks up there with all of the famous classics!!

A Perfect Game
I used to feel there were two types of Kevin Costner movies: First, the wonderful, fun baseball films (Bull Durham, Field of Dreams) and there is also the film that brings out a self-indulgent performance (The Postman, Robin Hood). With FOR LOVE OF THE GAME, Costner combines the two getting a self-indulgent baseball flick. The director (Sam Raimi) does some interesting stuff but, it cannot save the film as the screenplay is riddled with cliches' and an interest-less romance. Kelly Preston fills a role more apt to Meg Ryan and Kevin does some great athletic performing but is given nothing else to sink his teeth into. The DVD looks nice and the sound is great. It includes some irrelevant deleted scenes and a brief making-of documentary. "If you build it, they will come" does not apply here...

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