movie review - Eddie
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Toronto, 1997.03.01
This was a lousy movie. I have no idea what possessed me to see a movie about professional sports, even in the context of a zany, zany comedy, but I went from hating basketball to hating Whoopi Goldberg. I mean, I'll get over that but not this movie. It starts out poorly, then gets reasonably watchable for most of its length where the lead's obvious intelligence and wit carries it. However, they "Hollywoodize" it through the use of an unbelievably melodramatic and ridiculous "plot development", as if realizing that story has to have conflict, and blow it all. It becomes mind-numbingly, insultingly bad at the end.
Not recommended. If you couldn't tell.