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Clint Eastwood turns in another performance of being an angry old man.

Baseball is reduced to a competition between dudes behind computer screens and old scouts who can't see.

I think you're supposed to care about Amy Adams and Clint's relationship as father/daughter but you probably won't.

All in all its not a terrible movie, but it tries really hard to be a good movie and its not.

Oh, Justin Timberlake plays a completely unconvincing ex-prospect turned scout who actually wants to be a play by play announcer.

If you love baseball as life movies, you might enjoy this. Otherwise I'd suggest skipping it as there are much better ways to spend a couple of hours.

I wanted to like this a lot. I heard it wasn't your typical "Christian" film. I grew up loving Rich Mullins and was lucky enough to get to see him in concert in my early teens.

His music and life had a profound effect on me, leading me to finding Brennan Manning's book and well, just showing me that life isn't as simple as church often makes it.

The problem with this movie is its just not very well done. The acting is mediocre at best, the writing is as well.

Some things are set in the correct time period and others they just appear to shrug and say "oh well" and don't worry they aren't.

The movie also does a pretty terrible job at flowing. We get a glimpse of Rich as a kid, it was rough, his dad was a hard man, and then, he's smoking, and then he's off at Bible college, and then he's in Zion. Stuff happens, and you sort of see how they're connected, but they don't flow into each other.

I really wish this movie had been a real documentary instead of poorly made docu-drama.

Rich Mullins is an inspirational figure who shared his genius and God's love with the world while battling extremely human flaws. He didn't hide from them, and fortunately the movie doesn't flinch from them, but neither does the movie do a proper service to the man and his work.

When I first saw the trailers for Non-stop I thought "Oh god, that looks awful." Unfortunately my wife decided to get it through netflix and I must say, its not awful. Its certainly not good, but its not awful.

For most of its length the movie is a decent suspense thriller. Its not a great one, but once you shut your mind off to the plot details, you can get into the "who's doing it?" "How are they going to get away with it?" aspects.

Unfortunately with about 20 minutes or so to go the movie completely gives up any pretense of being decent. I won't give you any spoilers, but it goes from mediocre to just plain dumb. I mean, seriously, it lost a star just for that, it would have been a slightly more mediocre 6.

Liam Neeson does a good job of the role he's sort of slouched into, being angry punching people.

Julianne Moore was completely wasted. I have no idea why she was in this movie except to put another "star" in it? Totally under utilized and her character is, well it just feels like it was written in to give room to another name.

The best aspect of this movie is the director realized he didn't have 2 hours worth of material. He didn't even have the 1:46 of material, but still, in this day and age of every horrible film feeling like it needs to be 2 hours + having a mediocre movie clock in at 1:46 is a breath of fresh air. Another 15 minutes would have been painful. Honestly I think so many Hollywood films I've hated lately would benefit from just being 90-105 minutes long instead of 120-150 minutes long, but that strays from this already rambling review.