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Mr. 3000 review
Posted : 10 years, 9 months ago on 4 July 2013 07:27
A lackluster comedy that wastes the appeal of Bernie Mac by turning him into one of the most unappealing undeserving sports film characters I've ever seen. A good sports movie makes you root for the underdog - Mr. 3000 makes you hope that the underdog gets neutered. Though, judging by the completely lackluster romantic parts, that might have already happened. On the plus side, some of the extras on the DVD feature cameos from real major leaguers so, if you somehow don't have access to youtube, you can see a middle aged Ryne Sandberg talking about a fictional movie character.
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[Film] Mr. 3000
Posted : 16 years, 3 months ago on 2 January 2008 10:20
This movie has the honour of getting the first 1-star rating from me this year. Yes, avoid it at all costs. It is a terrible movie with no soul and no heart. Supposedly a comedy, it's surprisingly humourless, but what's worse is the movie's superficial attempts to be somewhat meaningful, or as meaningful as a Disney movie can be anyway. In the end, it fails miserably as a comedy or a good inspirational story about baseball.
Obviously I rented this movie because of its subject matter. I always enjoy a good baseball movie, but no baseball fan would fall for the fake baseball storyline in this one. The movie starts with this arrogant jackass of a baseball player getting his 3000th hit and retiring to enjoy his fame and money. 10 years later, the record people find out that 3 of his 3000th hits don't count due to some unconvincingly contrived recording mistakes. The guy, now 46-years-old and fat (though no fatter than he has been in the beginning of the movie, but we're supposed to overlook this small detail), decides to go back to the Majors and rejoin his old team the Milwaukee Brewers in order to get his 3 hits and make a case for his Hall of Fame bid. As the guy trains to get in shape (again he looks EXACTLY the same before and after) and tries again to play baseball, he gradually discovers his love for the sport once again and for the first time what teamwork is all about. This journey of awakening or what have you is neither funny nor touching even though the movie tries hard to be all those things.
The acting is terrible. Bernie Mac who plays the main character can't convince me for a million years that he is a baseball player, and a good one at that. He does a good job of being a jerk though because I really hated his character. The baseball part of the movie is awful, but the rest is even worse. The romance between Mac's character and the journalist played by Angela Bassett is cheesy and unnecessary, not to mention FAKE. Everything about this movie is fake and shallow - the emotions, the game or the message. The character development is next to none. You never get to see why or how the selfish player transforms into a team player, and the minor characters are as good as props. The movie is also full of stereotypes. The black players say stuff like "yo" and "this is wack" while the Japanese player (the actor by the way does a God awful Japanese accent) swears like a retard: "You're son of a dick." In short, the movie sucks, and I want the two hours of my life back.
Obviously I rented this movie because of its subject matter. I always enjoy a good baseball movie, but no baseball fan would fall for the fake baseball storyline in this one. The movie starts with this arrogant jackass of a baseball player getting his 3000th hit and retiring to enjoy his fame and money. 10 years later, the record people find out that 3 of his 3000th hits don't count due to some unconvincingly contrived recording mistakes. The guy, now 46-years-old and fat (though no fatter than he has been in the beginning of the movie, but we're supposed to overlook this small detail), decides to go back to the Majors and rejoin his old team the Milwaukee Brewers in order to get his 3 hits and make a case for his Hall of Fame bid. As the guy trains to get in shape (again he looks EXACTLY the same before and after) and tries again to play baseball, he gradually discovers his love for the sport once again and for the first time what teamwork is all about. This journey of awakening or what have you is neither funny nor touching even though the movie tries hard to be all those things.
The acting is terrible. Bernie Mac who plays the main character can't convince me for a million years that he is a baseball player, and a good one at that. He does a good job of being a jerk though because I really hated his character. The baseball part of the movie is awful, but the rest is even worse. The romance between Mac's character and the journalist played by Angela Bassett is cheesy and unnecessary, not to mention FAKE. Everything about this movie is fake and shallow - the emotions, the game or the message. The character development is next to none. You never get to see why or how the selfish player transforms into a team player, and the minor characters are as good as props. The movie is also full of stereotypes. The black players say stuff like "yo" and "this is wack" while the Japanese player (the actor by the way does a God awful Japanese accent) swears like a retard: "You're son of a dick." In short, the movie sucks, and I want the two hours of my life back.
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