Million dollar Arm review 3/5

India.

A country with second largest population on earth. A crowd place surround by culture that are difficult to understand by foreigner.

Some said it was rural and dirty, but beneath it lie some beauty.

And people with potential, who needs to have a chance to shine.

But somehow this film choose to make it about a white guy and his sport film cliche.

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Million dollar Arm is a film base on  real life story of J.B. Bernstein(Jonn Hamm), a sport agent who went to India to find out new talent for baseball league. He put a competition called 'Million Dollar Arm' to find a best thrower and offer the winner a chance to play on major baseball league. There, they found Rinku Singh(Suraj Sharma-Life of Pi) and Dinesh Patel(Madhur Mittal- Slumdog Millionaire), and bring them back to US for training and try to impress the major league.

It might sound like a sport film cliche, but it's ok. I think the film was fine actually. Jonn Hamm is doing ok job on the lead and he twist all his charm that he could. Suraj Sharmais also doing a good job and I found pretty surprising that Madhur Patel can switch from psychotic Salim in Slumdog Millionaire to somewhat adorkable Dinesh in this film. We also have a beautiful shot here and there in Mumbai. The comedic timing are also pretty good.

However, I think the film can be so much more.

Million dollar Arm is one of the film that have potentially good story but fail to deliver because of the wrong perspective. The film should have followed Rinku and Dinesh(the Indians) perspective more than Bernstein(Jonn Hamm's character).

You might think I sound crazy but think about it. Rinku and Dinesh are two Indians boy who never travel abroad, can't speak English, and the 'Million dollar Arm' is the only ticket ticket to their dream. There are a lot of stuff that you can play with them like culture clash, heroic journey and all those stuff. They are the underdog type character that you could root for.

Can't say no to this cool pose.

On the other hand, Bernstein already have a nice house, car, and handsomeness of Jonn Hamm. The only thing that he don't have is a decent girlfriend(who he finally get one at the end).The film mention that he's about to run out of business, but it fail to build any suspends.

Beside, he's Don Draper. 

A nice film, but it could be much more better.