Tommy Lee Jones at his best, at times it becomes cringeworthy, a testament to his talent. Apparently it is mostly fictitious, but that doesn't really take anything away from the overall production.

Tommy Lee Jones is fantastic but the film is character assassination and almost completely fictional. Why?

Best baseball movie of all time, regardless of what Dan Harris and Brendan Tuma say.

A good movie with a great central performance

I didn't really expect nothing but a journalist whose purpose is to get bucks from being patient against an arrogant old man that constantly makes you feel awkward. Great performance by Tommy Lee J, but just as him, you may need a dose of xanax to calm down the awkward nerves. Cause there are times during the film in which you feel embarrassed, and that may be plot's intention although it wasn't necessary to enlarge it for 2 and a half hours. Director's aim may be completed, we now have an idea of who we shouldn't become once we succeed and what to avoid if there's once the desire of write and produce a biopic.

Another wonderfully unsentimental and melancholic baseball film that doesn't use baseball to promote the "American Dream," but rather uses one player to showcase in great detail the dark side of that dream. "Cobb" is Robert Wuhl's best performance.

I thought that this movie was alright, I am not really into sports movies etc...I do like bios and true stories though.I thought that Tommy Lee Jones did a great job as Ty Cobb shows the man's struggles and his highlights over his time in baseball

Decent film. It has a 1970's made-for-온라인카지노추천 feel to it at times, and Robert Wuhl, though likeable enough, just seems miscast somehow. As expected, TLJones steals the show. He alone makes this flick a good watch. But it's still not one you'll return to again and again. Ty Cobb was just that screwed up, and the movie bearing his name, for all its fun and interesting points, just seems to not know what kind of tone it wants to consistently set, and therefore falls a couple innings shy of a complete game.

'Greatness is overrated.'

Often uneven, but Tommy Lee Jones unrelenting portrayal drives the movie

"Cobb" offers a towering performance by Tommy Lee Jones, but the accuracy of the life of one of baseball's greats is questionable in this film that has almost no baseball in it, but more focuses on Cobb's off-field antics that include violence and drinking heavily.

Not enough of Cobb actually playing ball. It was just old Ty Cobb being an asshole. I was hoping to see young Ty Cobb being an asshole while playing baseball.

Ron Shelton's Cobb is a magnificant film that gives insight into the "dark brooding soul" of one of America's Baseball heros. Based on Tyrus Ramond Cobb's biography as written by Al Stump, it paints the picture of a wretched man, who is still today remebered as one of the Greatest Baseball players of all Time. Tommy Lee Jones' performance as Ty Cobb is captivating and often scary as he captures the essence of a truly horrible man. Sadly his performance is unrecognized and is possible one of his best of all time. The film is journey into one man's dark half and a fantastic addition to any collection.

I hope that all great athletes do not come with that much baggage. Good performance by jones, but the rest of the film, besides Lolita, gave weak support. Many aspects shown were not necessary in order to tell the story well, and because of that many will never know more about Cobb, but should they? I don't think I will ever see this one again.

Tommy Lee Jones gives one of his best performances in his portrayal of Ty Cobb. Jones immerses himself in the role of one of the greatest baseball players ever. He's angry, racist, disgusting, and ultimately a sad broken man. Robert Wuhl, as the sportswriter hired by Cobb to write his biography, is Cobb's foil throughout the film; injecting a little more hilarity in his guise as straight man Al Stump. Very similar to his role on the HBO series "Arliss". Instead of telling a straight chronological biography, Cobb starts in 1961, the year of Cobb's death. Riddled with cancer, among other medical problems, and sensing the end is near, Cobb hires Al Stump to write his biography, or at least a sanitized version of it. Stump agrees - while secretly writing a second biography to be published after Cobb's death - traveling with Cobb to a Hall of Fame dinner in Cooperstown and then down to Cobb's hometown in Georgia. Along the way, Stump learns that all of the legends about Cobb's temper and vile behavior are true. Although we are given some of Cobb's past via flashbacks and the stories that he tells, we are shown surprisingly little baseball. There's really only one scene of it in the entire film where we see Cobb faceoff with a pitcher (played by real life pitcher Roger Clemens and then steal a couple of bases with his famous high-spiking slide. I found this lack of baseball to be unsatisfying. While this movie does a great job of showing what type of man Cobb was and Tommy Lee Jones delivers a great performance as the baseball legend, overall the movie never lives up to either the character or the actor. It wants to make a statement about heroes and reality, but it never really gets there. Cobb, the movie, isn't great, but Cobb, the man, as acted by Jones, is fascinating Only the long dead Cobb and Al Stump himself know how much of this is fact and how much is fiction, but one thing is for certain, it makes for a damn fine tale and goes some way to explaining one of the most hated, yet loved, figures in baseball history.

Un film qui se gêne pas pour présenter une légende sous son vrai jour !

Forgot how much I liked this movie. Still must read the book.

Have not seen this one since it first came out on video. Tommy Lee Jones is great at Ty Cobb. This is not the typical baseball movie. Much more a dramatic look at the man behind the legend of the greatest baseball player of all time.

Great movie, could use more actual baseball in it though.

An amazing job by Jones. An incredible movie.