What a bizarre film. The premise is good, though the numbers are laughable compared to today's baseball contracts. $40 million dollars. That's it!?

Gil struck me as an odd person, but his descent escalated too much for my understanding of the character. He did seem to be well connected and resourceful. He found all the phone numbers, the club the players hang out at, the hotels they stay, their houses, and could continue to afford tickets to the Giants games after losing his job. The last act had some interesting reveals, some interesting shots, but forced you to suspend disbelief a little too much.

For example, [spoiler]how did he step in as the home umpire? Was it for the entire game? If so, I think there are limited numbers of umpires in the league and they should all have a level of familiarity with each other and umpires do confer between innings. If it was in the middle of the game, then where is the umpire now? Also, it was a lot of rain. Like, an insane amount of rain for the fans to be sitting in the stands still.[/spoiler]

Still a fair movie. Not as great as I once thought.

What was a pretty good 3/4, the last act was too ridiculous to take seriously. Still as a whole fine performances from both De Niro and Snipes even if neither were in top form, but at least appeared to be trying instead of phoning it in as both have done in the past decade or so.

Also a testament, as I could never see the NFL doing this, for the MLB to allow licensing on their teams with a fan, albeit a psychopath (or is it sociopath?), being portrayed that way. **2.75/5**