The film revolves around the baseball pitcher Bill Lee (Josh Duhamel) and deals with the Montreal fair. This person tries to face the Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expo during the 1970s and early 1980s, while he was distinguished by his strange behavior on the field.
While a fictionalized account of Lee's career certainly held some sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll potential, the blandly pedestrian film "Spaceman" seldom delivers despite an engagingly game lead performance by Josh Duhamel.
Whiffs on the sports, the action, the story, the dialogue, the acting, the cinematography, the production design, the costuming, the humor ... and somehow turns a potentially compelling character study into one big yawning seventh-inning stretch.
Unfortunately, Duhamel's bright performance ends up the highlight of the feature, which only provides a vague idea of Lee's life and love for belligerent behavior.
