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Rating  - Fantastic
The Director's Cut is awesome. I bought this for my husband and he raved about how good it was. It was well worth the money
Rating - Best Baseball Movie Ever..Period!
The original movie was amazing and this version is even better and more complete. It gives more background to Roy Hobbs and the transfer is flawless. It is a must for any baseball fan!
Rating - Mythical work on baseball
This ain't the Malamud novel put on screen. Yet this movie is very effective in its own right. While inspired by the book (many scenes are pretty much out of the book), there is a very different sensibility. The book is a kind of morality tale, with a dark view of the human condition. The movie, after an elegaic beginning, also gets dark--but then ends with a dramatic moment and a touching, affecting close.
There are mythical moments in the movie that are most catching--the lightning bolt and the cover coming off the baseball, breaking the clock at the stadium, the climactic closing baseball moment in the film.
Roy Hobbs, though, isn't superhuman, although he is less prone to human foibles than his namesake in the novel. He is human and very talented. His life went haywire when he went to try out for a major league team early in his life(with a contract in his pocket). A meeting with a mysterious woman derailed his baseball career for many years.
He comes back in his 30s and has a brief moment of glory, suggesting what could have been if things had worked out differently.
Thus stated, this sounds like a sad movie. But the ending, bringing a family back together after a dramatic moment in the playoffs, provides an upbeat ending, testifying to the possibilities that our hopes can be realized.
Robert Redford's acting style plays well in this movie. Glenn Close provides an affecting counterpoint to Kim Basinger's Memo Paris and Barbara Hershey's mysterious woman. Darren McGavin is wonderful as the gambler and Robert Duvall as Max Mercy, the sports writer. Wilford Brimley is terrific as the gruff old manager. Good acting; nice special effects; wonderful cinematography by Caleb Deschanel.
I know, it's a baseball movie. But it remains powerful for me after too many viewings.
Rating  - Director has lost sight
I don't understand how someone could allow such a sub-par edit of a great film to leak out, and pretend that it is some superior "cut" of the original. Every director's cut I've ever seen carefully improved the existing film (with the exception of George Lucas' nightmares: SW) Barry Levinson forgot the emotion in his own characters if he actually had anything to do with it. The added scenes were cool, but tainted by such an inferior editing job that robs any emotion the film originally had. Bottom Line: The pace of the film is totally off and with no good reason.
The special features should include the original cut so buyers get a decent film in the package. All things considered, The Natural is my favorite movie ever. And they made it into a sloppy hack-job. Terrible.
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