Film Review – 42

Jackie Robinson was a miraculous baseball player, but one would never
know that after watching the bio-pic “42.” Instead of focusing on a
sterling Major League Baseball career that lasted for nine years, the
feature only covers Robinson’s introductory season with the Brooklyn
Dodgers, where he faced torrential amounts of bigotry as he broke the
color barrier. Racism is primarily on the mind of writer/director Brian
Helgeland, and it often results in dramatic dead ends, beating the same
drum of intolerance while a towering portrait of a sporting legend is
left behind. “42” isn’t a baseball movie, it’s a flaccid, obvious
melodrama with occasional moments of dazzling diamond activity. What a
shame. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com