Just as bad as "The Natural", and worse...

Rating: Null/10 (2 April 2002)

What do you have when you take an absurd script, marry it with boring subject matter(sports, but not just sports, GOLF!!!!!!!!), and stiff, mannered acting and directing?
You get The Legend of Bagger Vance, a futile attempt to make golf, 1930's style, somehow seem interesting, mystical and worthwhile. Yawn...no....double yawn. This thing could put the world's biggest insomniac to sleep. Were it not for the pulchritude of Charlize Theron, this film would offer no redeeming values of any kind.
I found myself wishing to punch Matt Damon's lights out on repeated occasions - he is perhaps the worst famous actor working today - it is definitely a horse race between he and Keanu Reeves. Damon is probably going to be Redford's replacement as Hollywood's most overrated actor. He is stiff, not believable, and offers the worst southern accent I've heard since Melanie Griffith.
Why all the worship of this film? I have no idea - Redford just reworked the awful "Natural" script and placed the protagonist on a golf course instead - if any sport translates to film worse than baseball, it is golf!