Movie of the Day: ” Calvin Marshall” staring Alex Frost, Steve Zahn and Michelle Lombardo.
Length: 1:33:06
Date of Review: 09-24-2010
Rating: 7.00 (has components of a great movie with some great acting from literally everyone, however, left me feeling I wanted more).
Review: I will say like most movies, I never usually read the reviews before I watch, so I can really get a feel for the movie as it comes to me off the screen and let my emotions of that moment really “feel the moment” I am in. Like most I am sure we watch movies to get the enjoyment and really let yourself be absorbed as though you are right in the movie. The best ones all do that to you.
This movie “Calvin Marshall” was like that for me, being an ex ball player scouted by the big leagues, and knee problems never got me there. This is the reverse of Calvin Marshall played by Alex Frost, about a guy who doesn’t seem to have the talent, never would ever get to the Game but has a heart that truthfully was too giving to ever get there. It’s a story about life and how we flow with the choices that come to us, and the times in our lives we feel confident in something (because something else in our life was being done super unexpectedly well which flowed our confidence into everything else we were doing ). Isn´t that the moral is that we never know what is going to be right around the corner that can just bring that energized Life right out of us.
Steve Zahn played a great role (really) but still the mean coach, ex Ball wonder guy turned drunken loser every night, was my personal turnoff because he is also in all his other roles just too nice a guy and after all the issues with coaches and molesting of players lately, I liked him but just didn’t like the role, I thought the script could have been improved to work him into a bigger person which would have given us a more feel good movie, his script was a disadvantage to where that movie could have been the high 8 to 9’s (which in my reviews is the near 10).
The new girl Top Volleyball “girlfriend” played by Michelle Lombardo was brilliant. She was not only refreshing to watch and see she was the perfect person to make that role really shine, I have never personally seen her before, but with her acting I am sure she will get some great future roles. And of course, I was a Volleyball Beach expert and one of the top players in school, and in that sport your either great or nothing, so I felt her competitive edge really pushed the movie up in adrenalin for me watching it.
However, that adrenalin rush I felt and I was hoping it would have rubbed off on Calvin Marshall, but it didn’t really and thus my only disappointment for this was it gave me a different ending then I was originally hoping for but that is really what this was about….being prepared to not always get exactly what we really want, and the great person we turn into anyways.
