Critic Reviews

The cranky old-coot humor between Studi and Cox is a welcome break, and there could have been more of it.

The patience of the sport and the tranquility of the settings casts a spell, and it all comes together in modestly, honestly moving ways.

In general, Stephen Camelio’s script, sensitive and convincing as it is, attempts to pack too much emotion, back story and metaphor into a relatively slender tale. The result is a two-hour film that would have benefited from a judicious trim, a quickened pace and less melodrama.

The title of the film “Mending the Line” refers to an adjustment to a fly-fishing line to counter the effects of water currents. But there’s a lot more than the placement of a filament that needs to be remedied in this well-meaning but inert PTSD melodrama.