There is a reason why the best movie about "Titanic" was made after anyone involved was long gone....if "42" was made 42 years from now there would be no one left to nitpick from experience.
The movie was fine, performances were almost uniformly excellent (Harrison Ford should receive Oscar consideration), it "looked good," and hit on most of the major points. The only bad thing was a pretty lame-ass musical soundtrack with stuff like "fanfare" playing during a slow-motion home run.
Actually, it's pretty much a throwback baseball movie with racism as the central theme. Serious baseball fans should see it on the big screen.
For me the highlight was the performance of "Red Barber" doing play-by-play. Great! That's MY Oscar-worthy performance.
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