BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

thasaint-1 I have seen Hardball probably 15 times. Every single Go**** time I weep my eyes of every single tear I have in my ducts. From the uplifting circumstances and situations these young men encounter every day in inner city Chicago(which sadly probably isn't far from the truth of real life) I can't help but feel so sad for them and how they are brought up. When Keanu gives the speech at the end and they go back to the last game with G baby, damn such a powerful scene and moment. Shows how much Sports can bring us all together despite color, age, financial status,etc. I don't know what else more to say but just watch this movie, one of my all time favs.

SnoopyStyle Conor O'Neill (Keanu Reeves) is a degenerate gambler and a drunk. After some bad loses, he's in trouble with his bookies and he borrows money from Jimmy on one condition. Conor needs to coach kids baseball in the projects. He finds out that he needs to field a full team, but teacher Elizabeth Wilkes (Diane Lane) is holding back a couple of the kids.Keanu is all jittery. It's very distracting, and not very attractive. The rom-com part of the movie is a bust. The character is a giant mess. The saving grace are the kids. They are the movie. It's the Bad News Bears with better kids characters and weaker adult characters. I just wish they forget about the rom-com, and cool down the gambling drama. I wish they put more of the kids' story in the film. Although I'm very glad to not have to watch the usual final championship game.

b_oakley Why is everyone so technical? Of course the movie isn't perfect, we don't need that regurgitated in every negative review. I'll read the goofs for that. As a whole, I thought the movie was pretty good. It's has some realistic aspects to it. Yeah, it was a lot of cursing from the kids, but society made that rule. Many ppl are fine with children using profanity. It's just simply words WE pronounced as "bad." SMH I'm sure half your children curse like sailors out of your presence. Lol I'm just saying, just with anything else, it's all about perspective. Morals will differ, so no need to bash it bc your morals differ from the director's. I'm not saying you don't have the right to dislike the movie, but damn. We don't need reviews about how badly it was filmed, if you have NO idea how to film it better. Good day. :)

AlexInChains19 This is the story about Connor O'Neal(Keanu Reeves), a guy with a big gambling debt. He makes his living by scalping tickets and then making bets. In order to pay off his debts, he goes to an old friend who works at a big broker firm. Instead of giving Connor money, he gives him a job coaching a bunch of troubled kids in a rundown Chicago neighborhood. He is very resentful and judgemental at first, but he becomes very attached to the kids. He becomes somewhat of a father figure for many of the kids since, as Kofi says, "Where I come from, don't nobody's father ever come back." Anyway, despite several tragic events, the boys go on to play in "the ship." I enjoy movies that invoke a certain emotional feeling inside one's heart. This movie definitely produces those feelings.