Million Dollar Arm, Disney's latest underdog sports tale, is a conflict of morals and emotions. There's no denying the feel good vibes of a well-crafted athletic drama — fast ball exhilaration amplified by everyman star Jon Hamm. But the story of two Indian strong arms shipped from Mumbai to Major League Baseball training camp veers dangerously close to the all-too-common savior narrative.
Even while delicately approaching the true story of sports agent J. B. Bernstein (Hamm) and the pitchers, Rinku Singh (Life of Pi's Suraj Sharma) and Dinesh Patel (Madhur Mittal), he plucked from obscurity, writer Tom McCarthy (Win Win, The Station Agent) and director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) can't spin their patchwork family yarn without implications that the two transplants are somehow “rescued” from their home. It's a point-of-view problem; Million Dollar Arm is the story of J.B.'s crusade, a star vehicle for Hamm, that owes more time to its Indian stars. The movie throws every pitch straight down the middle when it's in desperate need of sliders, screwballs, and changeups.
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