A romantic subplot involving a cutesy tenant (Bell) is wearisome. AR Rahman’s background music score is straight out of a Bollywood potboiler.
At best, this well-intentioned triumph of the underdog tale makes for an okey-dokey matinee.

Million Dollar Arm is a Million Dollar Farce. It is a very Disney film. So there is insinuation of sex off screen and all of two kisses, but it is clean, feel good and unfortunately, also very predictable. They may as well have made this an animated flick and they would’ve gotten the same results.

Million Dollar Arm may have a point when it questions the treatment of players as commodities and not humans, it overdoes the white saviour bit.

Million Dollar Arm keeps you engaged as McCarthy succeeds in peppering the script with a balance of light-hearted and poignant moments. AR Rahman’s score is mishmash, drawing sounds from everywhere leaving the soundtrack with no standout track.

Visually, Director Craig Gillespie looks at India through the Hollywood prism, representing it as an uncanny bizarre country packed with weird living conditions with locals who unwittingly admit that “Here in India, we do things a little differently”, making it look like a poor country cousin of “Slumdog Millionaire”.