Like a lot of 80s movies this 90s attempt to cash in on Kevin Costner's sports movie appeal did not age well. Costner's character remains pretty unlikable throughout. Renée Russo's reprises her Major League role as a woman pretending to be strong and independent but quickly returns to being arm candy for a cute but toxic athlete. The dialogue is cringeworthy most of the movie, the timing is bad, the comedy isn't funny, and the sports scenes are not actually very good. The only saving grace is the iconic final scene where Costner keeps stubbornly hitting his failed shot again and again, throwing away a U. S. Open victory and proving that his character has not made any kind of arc, but ironically providing one of the most unexpected endings in a sports comedy movie by avoiding the predictable "protagonist underdog wins it all" trope. I hadn't seen it since it first came out, and that ending alone had stuck in my head, fooling me into thinking more highly of the film than it deserved. I rented it tonight and skipped through most of the middle third. Comedies are supposed to be 90 minutes long... this slow moving, babbling mess is appallingly over two hours. Definitely not worth sitting through.
Review of Tin Cup
