What the fuck was going on in this film? What's the point of meeting famous baseball players of the past in random locations? Interesting premise, terrible execution. I especially HATED James Earl Jones' character who becomes swayed so easily and stupidly, along with Costner's stepbrother. The whole film is just a big dose of stupid. Only Costner's presence saves the day, along with the actors playing baseball stars who manage to stay well in character. But the lines that they have to say are dumb and infuriating.
This film's message seems to be about, disregarding your grudges in order to talk with your friends or your relatives when they're still in their living years. Is that a good guess?
Worthless film for anything else than its "If you build it, he will come" quote, though.
Hideos HD-DVD transfer too, which doesn't offer that many improvements over a regular DVD when compared to what other HD video releases offer. Universal is so desperate to rush all their catalog films to disc so that the HD-DVD format still looks like it has a very big range of films to offer. And it shows when the video compression is so horrible, the picture so grainy, and the extra features so thin.
