Mr. 3000 (2004)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 110
Fresh: 62 | Rotten: 48
Bernie Mac demonstrates he can play the game even if the movie's a few innings short of a complete game.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 15
Bernie Mac demonstrates he can play the game even if the movie's a few innings short of a complete game.
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Directed by Charles Stone III, Mr. 3000 revolves around over-the-hill baseball star Stan Ross (Bernie Mac), who retired after making what he thought was his 3,000th base hit for the Milwaukee Brewers (i.e. the exact amount of hits it takes to qualify for the Hall of Fame). Though he shocked his teammates by quitting in the middle of the game, certain that his Hall of Fame position was in the bag, complications arise when he discovers that three of his hits during his ten-year career had been
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Bernie Mac
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Angela Bassett
Mo Simmons -
Brian J. White
T-Rex Pennebaker -
Michael Rispoli
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Ian Anthony Dale
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Evan Jones
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Amaury Nolasco
Fryman -
Dondre Whitfield
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Paul Sorvino
Gus Panas -
Earl Billings
Lenny Koron -
Chris Noth
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All Critics (110) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (49) | DVD (22)
There are no big surprises, but Mac and director Charles Stone III hit all the right dramatic notes, and Angela Bassett is reliably smart and sexy as Mac's love interest.
Top CriticThis one's out of the park.
Deliberately Louisville-slugs its audience over the head.
One wishes that the screenplay were as accomplished as the actors, but one can't have everything.
It's a solid base hit.
An uncompromisingly grown-up comedy that any willing adult can see in any multiplex in the country.
This feature-length commercial for Major League Baseball covers all the cross-marketing bases.
A mild and forgettable baseball comedy.
Bernie Mac carries this risqué minor league film.
Bernie Mac has a talent for cussing. It's a talent that can take you pretty far in the entertainment industry, but it still can't carry a movie, as Mr. 3000 demonstrates.
The movie may not rank in the Hall of Fame for baseball flicks, but Stone and his star do honor to the heart of the game, and provide enough comedy curve balls to stay above the fray of the encroaching clichés.
Mac gets a rare opportunity to showcase his true dramatic range as an actor.
Mr. 3000 has nothing extraordinary to contribute to the ever-growing pile of sports movies with an ineffective artillery of weak comedy and romance.
Somewhat surprising twist at the end makes MR. 3000 interesting, but this happens too late to improve generally disappointing impression of this film.
A solid, enjoyable early Autumn baseball film, and just in time for the MLB playoffs.
It's a team sport, but the story belongs to the individual, which gives the otherwise comfortable corniness of Mr. 3000 its meta-celebrity subtext.
The best that can be said for Mr. 3000 is that it does the schmaltz of the baseball movie genre justice.
...easy-going...
Maybe it's a light, humorous, slightly romantic, sort-of sports drama. Maybe it's that very indecisiveness in what the movie wants to be that turns it into such a no hitter.
I can think of no compelling reason for anyone but a confirmed Bernie Mac fan wanting to watch it. I was already pretty much out of this ball game just a few innings in.
It's something that goes through the motions of being a movie without really bothering to make it all the way through.
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