I had to watch this as I had to translate it. So... not by choice.
Three things make this movie a mess, IMO.
First of all, the kid is... I don't even know how to put it. He has only one face the entire movie. It's clear he has absolutely ZERO acting skills. He cannot read one single line without making us feel like his dad (the producer) is behind the camera urging him "Come on, kid, say the line!" Almost all the other children are quite OK, the fat kid is good, the twins... But the "star". He looks almost embarrassed to be there.
The story. So this kid is a ball boy, he enters three minutes a game, suddenly plays for half a game and is somehow in the news. A kid in some obscure youth league in Michigan goes on to meet the President of the USA... OK. I get the nation needs a feelgood story plot, but this is hilarious.
The propaganda. Aahh, the mighty American army. Of course, the Americans soldiers are in some foreign country, bringing freedom, no doubt, when the father of the kid goes missing. They actually deploy some "spiders" and "dragonflies" in a surreal scene, that made me think for a second "is this a SciFi?" No, it's just a random CGI nonsense, no explanation scene. I'm not even kidding, it's like the writer was high, working on multiple scripts and he got confused. The liberties and freedoms speech of the President is nauseating.
I'm not sure how so many established and famous actors were convinced to take part in this. My guess is they owed some sort of debt to the producer, who wanted so much to turn his son into a star. I have no other explanation.
Avoid at all costs.
Three things make this movie a mess, IMO.
First of all, the kid is... I don't even know how to put it. He has only one face the entire movie. It's clear he has absolutely ZERO acting skills. He cannot read one single line without making us feel like his dad (the producer) is behind the camera urging him "Come on, kid, say the line!" Almost all the other children are quite OK, the fat kid is good, the twins... But the "star". He looks almost embarrassed to be there.
The story. So this kid is a ball boy, he enters three minutes a game, suddenly plays for half a game and is somehow in the news. A kid in some obscure youth league in Michigan goes on to meet the President of the USA... OK. I get the nation needs a feelgood story plot, but this is hilarious.
The propaganda. Aahh, the mighty American army. Of course, the Americans soldiers are in some foreign country, bringing freedom, no doubt, when the father of the kid goes missing. They actually deploy some "spiders" and "dragonflies" in a surreal scene, that made me think for a second "is this a SciFi?" No, it's just a random CGI nonsense, no explanation scene. I'm not even kidding, it's like the writer was high, working on multiple scripts and he got confused. The liberties and freedoms speech of the President is nauseating.
I'm not sure how so many established and famous actors were convinced to take part in this. My guess is they owed some sort of debt to the producer, who wanted so much to turn his son into a star. I have no other explanation.
Avoid at all costs.