Austin Movie Show review

Rating: 5/10 (10 October 2005)

How about, "The Worst, Most Clichéd, Sports Movie Title Ever?" What a lame name for a movie  The Greatest Game Ever Played. Every sports movie thinks that it's about the greatest game ever played. So a 20-year-old boy named Frances Ouimet (played by Constantine's Shai LaBeouf) won the 1913 U.S. Open big deal. It may have been one heck of a round of golf, but it was by no means the "Greatest" game ever played. Personally, I think the 2002 World Cup match between England and Argentina was the greatest game ever played, but I still wouldn't make a movie about it and have the arrogance to called it The Greatest Game Ever Played. The actual movie isn't bad, but it's not as monumental as the title leads you to believe. I honestly couldn't tell you the difference between this movie and 2004's Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius. They're both about golfers who lived a hundred years ago and piqued professionally in their twenties. Neither film is particularly memorable.