Truth is stranger than fiction, the saying goes, but sometimes the strangest truth doesn’t translate all that compellingly as drama. There’s no reason why the story of Moe Berg, a highly educated major-league baseball player whose somewhat mysterious life encompassed becoming an Allied spy in Europe during World War II, shouldn’t be fine film material, especially after it has already generated an acclaimed best-seller in Nicholas Dawidoff’s “The Catcher Was a Spy.”
Yet there’s a curious lack of credibility and urgency in this big-screen adaptation, the kind of respectable near-miss that can happen when worthy talent apply themselves to a project they’re just not ideally suited for. In this case, that would be “The Sessions” director Ben Lewin (who also has “Please Stand By” out this month) and star Paul Rudd, who is always a likable actor but was probably the wrong one for the job.
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Yet there’s a curious lack of credibility and urgency in this big-screen adaptation, the kind of respectable near-miss that can happen when worthy talent apply themselves to a project they’re just not ideally suited for. In this case, that would be “The Sessions” director Ben Lewin (who also has “Please Stand By” out this month) and star Paul Rudd, who is always a likable actor but was probably the wrong one for the job.
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- 1/20/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety - Film News
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