Touched by an Angel: The Movie

Rating: 4/10 (25 January 2003)

***Spoiler*** In "The Legend of Bagger Vance", Robert Redford reprises his strategy of using sport as a vehicle to achieve personal redemption and deep spiritual understanding. As in "The Horse Whisperer" a lone mystic comes to the aid of a deeply troubled person, and through sport (golf instead of horse whispering) imparts mystic knowledge. Also, like the precedent film, "The Legend of Bagger Vance" is insufferable.
The plot is unbelievable. At least the Robert Redford character in the "The Horse Whisperer" was a flesh and blood human (although imbued with such saintly virtues that I took an immediate dislike to him). But Bagger Vance is an angel or god or something. No way I'm buying that. A black angel selects a depressed white guy (and a Southerner) to help find himself and his golf swing so he can marry his rich white girlfriend? Nah. Bagger should have been buying him cartons of Luckies and quarts of cheap gin. The guy looked like he was having a better time in the dumps.
Avoid this mess.