Wife found this on Netflix, so I said what the hey and sat down to watch it with her. This movie follows a semi-professional golfer who threw tantrums in a professional match, got mad at his coach/caddy father, takes off in a tantrum, has a wreck in a small town and then has to stay there for a week waiting on his car to get fixed. While there he not only meets a local single, attractive girl as a romantic interest, but also a bully who he immediately has conflict with, and not to mention an ex-professional golfer who takes the role of his new coach in order to get his career back on track. As you can see, there are many well-used plot points there. And I'm sure you can also guess that the plot is pretty predictable. For instance, I told my wife that he was going to fall out of the boat when he was fishing (in order to learn how to be a better golfer, naturally), and when they were flying the plane and the engine cut out, I figured it was a joke by Robert Duvall's character (which is a pretty stupid thing to do since if someone who's never flown a plane before thinks they might crash due to making an unpowered landing, they could panic and do all sorts of things).
Naturally faking an engine failure and fly fishing make someone a much better golfer, not to mention developing the talent of painting a landscape with a big red arrow where you visualize your golf shot is going to go. Well after this and a bunch of religious preaching Robert Duvall gets the golf pro a shot in a small but important tournament where he immediately ties the big named golfer (Tae Kwon Oh, referred to as TKO... seriously?) for first place. It all comes down to making the very last shot, at which point the movie throws you for a loop by insulting you and saying that whether or not he made the shot isn't as important as being a Christian or some such nonsense, then gives you a website to go to in order to see how the movie ends, which from what I understand doesn't actually tell you if he made the shot or not. I instantly flipped off the TV with both hands, saying, "F you, movie!" If they can't even come up with a good ending, what the hell was the point in watching the whole thing? No, I didn't go to the website and don't plan to. From what I've read the website doesn't give you the ending of the movie either, just promises a sequel to this turkey.
I do have to give the movie one star for some good shots with some beautiful scenery, but other than that it was 90 minutes wasted.
Naturally faking an engine failure and fly fishing make someone a much better golfer, not to mention developing the talent of painting a landscape with a big red arrow where you visualize your golf shot is going to go. Well after this and a bunch of religious preaching Robert Duvall gets the golf pro a shot in a small but important tournament where he immediately ties the big named golfer (Tae Kwon Oh, referred to as TKO... seriously?) for first place. It all comes down to making the very last shot, at which point the movie throws you for a loop by insulting you and saying that whether or not he made the shot isn't as important as being a Christian or some such nonsense, then gives you a website to go to in order to see how the movie ends, which from what I understand doesn't actually tell you if he made the shot or not. I instantly flipped off the TV with both hands, saying, "F you, movie!" If they can't even come up with a good ending, what the hell was the point in watching the whole thing? No, I didn't go to the website and don't plan to. From what I've read the website doesn't give you the ending of the movie either, just promises a sequel to this turkey.
I do have to give the movie one star for some good shots with some beautiful scenery, but other than that it was 90 minutes wasted.