Rancidly cheesy psychological thriller whose title character is a philosophizing baseball nut (his motto: "Perfection and principles") fixated on the San Francisco Giants' new $40 million outfielder with a .310 lifetime average. But "psychological" is a very loose collar on this thriller; "ornamental" would be snugger. Director Tony Scott (Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Crimson Tide) is too exclusively focussed on visual furbelows -- tinted skies, Venetian-blind shadows, slow-motion, the standard well-stocked sewing kit -- to create any mental space in the movie. (Or geometrical space, either: the game of baseball appears to be playable in the area of the average living room.) Characteristic bit of zigzag needlework: a home-run trot so snipped up and spread out that the fan-in-the-stands (Robert De Niro) has time to exit the stadium, locate his car in the parking lot, and drive across town for a business meeting before the baseball star (Wesley Snipes) can circle the bases. John Leguizamo, Ellen Barkin, Benicio Del Toro. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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