Speaking of sports meeting Hallmark movies...
42
Only have a single complaint about this one... it's all just a tad vanilla. What really could have been something that aimed high and delivered a deeply emotional, introspective look at overcoming the ugly side of human nature... this movie just sort of picks the low hanging fruit. It's well shot and well acted... Everything you'd expect to see in an inspirational, based-on-a-true-story sports biopic is accounted for... And therein lies the problem, it's everything you'd expect and nothing you won't... If it wasn't for 'nigger' and 'coon' appearing in the dialog a few dozen times, it could have very well been a movie that was made for the Hallmark Channel. That said, Chadwick Boseman does well playing Robinson despite being almost a bit player in his own movie... because Hollywood isn't going to make a movie about a black guy... It's going to make a movie about a grumpy old white man helping the black guy.... Enter Harrison Ford, easily delivering his best grumpy old man role yet. Alan Tudyk and Christopher Meloni also standout in smaller support roles. 42 was well done from top to bottom, but is a whitewash in many respects... and in the end it still left me wanting.