Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

alexanderdavies-99382 This film belongs to Tommy Lee Jones. His performance in the title role is one to remember and I'm slightly surprised he wasn't nominated for an oscar. He plays the person of Ty Cobb as being unpleasant, unpredictable, eccentric but also rather tragic. Robert Wuhl compliments him as the real life biographer, Al Stump. The setting is the early 1960s. Ty Cobb - in his 70s - agrees to be interviewed by sports writer and biographer Al Stump after the latter feels the baseball hero should be more of a household name. What follows has to be seen in order to be believed.... The acting from the leads is what maintains the film. The fact that "Cobb" is mainly a two hander, helps to keep the film as that of a drama and character study. There isn't that much of a big supporting cast. Everyone else is kept firmly in the background and it works. The writing is outstanding and both Cobb and Stump have been given plenty of depth. I was a bit disappointed when I discovered that there is hardly any baseball footage or that the film doesn't begin with Cobb's life story from the beginning. In my opinion, the film would have benefited greatly. The foul language goes rather too far on more than one occasion and soon becomes predictable. The screenplay isn't exactly depressing as such. On the contrary, there are amusing moments along the way. One example, is the scene where Stump is notified that his wife wants a divorce! Cobb has a good laugh at his expense because it reminds him of similar times. There is a particularly moving scene near the end. Cobb successfully tracks down the location of his estranged daughter and is hoping she will speak to him. Stump presents him with the news that this is not going to happen. There is no dialogue to be heard as Stump is informed by the woman in question of her decision regarding her father. The visual interaction between the two speaks volumes. Watching from his car, Cobb knows instinctively that it's not good news. "Cobb" was hardly given a theatrical release in 1994 and is pretty hard to obtain on DVD these days. The film proves that Tommy Lee Jones can easily qualify as a character actor and the above film proves that.

robertf-scott37 In bio-pics and other movies claiming to possess an historical basis, reviewers should stick to evaluating movies as movies and not as history, unless they happen to have a fair bit of grounding on the subject and/or events. Sad that so many here obviously hold an image of a a man on the basis of having read-or at least believing themselves familiar with the subject-a single work, and that, a book that has been utterly debunked a number of times (most recently in "War on the Basepaths" (Tim Horbaker-2015) and "Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty" (Charles Leerhsen-2015). Knowing what the screenplay was based upon, I went expecting a fictional portrayal of Cobb's last years and, my only reason for going, an accomplished and powerful performance by Tommy Lee Jones; both expectations were entirely met.

Len Leger I guess one downfall of really being into history like I am, is that you do your homework after watching a supposedly true story like this movie claimed to be, and you find that the whole movie was a total lie. After watching this garbage, I did my normal thing of looking into the main character, and the real stories about them. This movie was far from the truth. The guy who came up with this had it in for Ty Cobb, and wrote a book that was all lies. The sad part about it is that now you have millions of people who watched it thinking it was all true, which in return has besmirched this person's name. I would never watch this garbage again even if you paid me. Don't waste your time or money. It's all a bunch of bull, and it's not even that great of a movie.

capone666 Cobb You would think that in a sport where teams carry around baseball bats that its players wouldn't so blatantly insult each other.However, the outfielder in this biography ran his mouth as much as his feet.Hiring famed sportswriter Al Stump (Robert Wuhl), the cantankerous Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones) hopes to whitewash his blemished baseball reputation with a glowing autobiography.While staying with the 72-year-old alcoholic at his home in Lake Tahoe, Stump, himself, experiences the legendary irritability of the Hall of Famer.Over the many months and miles he spends with Cobb, Stump must decide if he's going to pen a sanitized memoir or his own tell all.Based on Stump's book, Tommy Lee Jones' performance is certainly a homerun, however, the story revels too much in Cobb's senility and deep-seated racism.Furthermore, portraying baseball players as racists is insulting to those players who are just degenerate gamblers.Yellow Light vidiotreviews.blogspot.com