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(1 - 12) of 12 OFCS Rating: 17% Rotten Page   1   C+ "By making the film so obvious, in an attempt to violently extract the elementary points of joy out of the story, Final Season stumbles aimlessly instead of storming the emotional receptors like its great baseball cinema brethren."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf 2.5/4 "...manages to overcome the entirely underwhelming nature of its first act."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2/4 "Characters speak in dime-store odes to the sacred game of baseball. The emotions are of the maudlin, heart-on-your-sleeve variety. The music score swells even when the scene doesn't call for it. The climax is set at the big game. You get the picture."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C "Practically bursts at the seams with the same stock characters and cliches you've seen in countless other Inspiring Sports Dramas."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "Inspirational but overly cliched with its pseudo-earnestness...In short, this heartland-based hokum about a high school baseball team is definitely corn off the cob."   World Voice News   Frank Ochieng C- "Imagine the largest number of cliches one could cram into a single sports movie, double it, and you'll have The Final Season...well-meaning but hopelessly corny."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "Sports movies have become so generic and so common that it takes something unusual or affecting to spark an audience. The Final Season has neither."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1/4 "A sports movie hodgepodge, neither inspiring nor competent."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik B- "Despite its small size, Norway Iowa is large enough to contain every stereotype known to man."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1/4 "In The Final Season, high school baseball gives a small town its pride and identity. And quells teenage rebellion. And helps foster two separate romances. And cures cancer."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager C+ "... the small-town sentimentalism is poured on like syrup over griddlecakes."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 1/4 "So relentlessly earnest and maudlin it makes Hoosiers look like a Martin Scorsese film, The Final Season is the latest and worst sports-themed underdog story to get the big screen treatment."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight  (1 - 12) of 12 OFCS Rating: 17% Rotten Page   1