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KJ's Leading Idiot

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The Catcher Was a Spy is a 2018 American war film directed by Ben Lewin and written by Robert Rodat, based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Dawidoff. It stars Paul Rudd as Moe Berg, a former baseball player who joined the war effort during World War II and partook in espionage for the U.S. Government. Mark Strong, Sienna Miller, Jeff Daniels, Tom Wilkinson, Giancarlo Giannini, Hiroyuki Sanada, Guy Pearce, and Paul Giamatti also star. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and was released on June 22, 2018, by IFC Films.


Tue Dec 22, 2020 6:43 am
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Paul Rudd is great in this but it wastes the talented cast into a stale ideas over generic execution failing to make an impact. I have no idea what this movie was trying to achieve, its not gritty, nor tense or even emotional. The actual history could be fascinating but we hardly spend enough time with Mark Strong's character to really understand his motives. Plus the love story with Miller and Rudd is so undercooked you cannot get behind those two. The finale also lacks any tension and/or thrills and the whole ordeal feels shouldn't have been done in the first then we learn that Moe Berg got accolades for doing nothing, no offense but the movie really never brings out good traits about the character.

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