ugh

Rating: 3/10 (26 April 2001)

This movie, with its agonizingly drawn-out 60's-style camerawork and storyline, is apparently out to, singlehandedly, undo all of Tiger Wood's work to bring golf into the mainstream of young America. Personally, I love golf, but this film made me want to clone myself so that we could both not see this movie. While Will Smith did an admirable job of filling a role that was obviously written for someone twenty to thirty years his senior, Matt Damon once again proves himself to be a magnificently overrated actor. Robert Redford? Please, no more directing! I don't know how many more of those long closeups of the main character's "soulful eyes" I can take. Charlize Theron, while an incredibly talented person, has yet to land another role since "The Devil's Advocate" that proves it. Unfortunately, this is no exception.