Great message in a fairly good package

Rating: 9/10 (31 December 2008)

Perhaps this movie appeals only to some, and perhaps only at certain times in your life. Are you down and out? Need to get back to what you once were? Then there may be a message here for you.
It could be that I am in a cynical phase, but I just saw "There Will Be Blood" and was not blown away. A linear progression toward an anticlimactic finish. Here too there was no magical revelation in one powerful scene, and certainly no real golf lessons. But I did get something deep out of it. The blurb suggests it will make the spirit soar. Your mileage may vary, but expect true inspiration as a minimum. If it doesn't make you feel, it will make you think. On the plus side, Redford has created beautiful cinema with this golf-centered and Depression-era story.
Anyway, I'm done with watching it, Charlize trying to re-ignite passion for an old flame, to profess her love. But I wonder still if that's all there was, or how it all fits in ...