Hey everybody!, its Matt Woods and Tiger Smith!

Rating: 1/10 (7 April 2001)

Golf. A challenging game, but not half as challenging as sitting through this Redford rubbish. Has the man no shame? Smith shows us why he became the Mr T of the nineties. Damon tries once again to convince us he is the most talented human being on the face of the planet, playing yet another character with talent that just needs harnessing, (in this case by Smith, who's acting can only be described as 'fresh'). One wonders when Damon might like to join the human race, whereby ordinary people have to face life without amazing super powers, and show normal human emotional frailties, not wonder why they can't sink a putt. And for anybody who thinks thinks this represents any 'heal the world' effect on race relations.....see 'In the Heat of the Night' to get that stupid idea out of your head, then you'll feel a bit wiser about what constitutes racial commentary.

Far closer to the truth is that the era the film is set in, combined with the ethnicity difference of the the two leads are used to manipulate the audience in the most vulgar way. Far from being clever, it is type casting at its ugliest. I for one would be interested on Spike Lee's comments on this movie, which clearly was devised for the 'lap it up' consumption of the intellectual midget. If you sat down the movie audience before they viewed this movie, and asked them what they thought would happen in it, almost all would find themselves capable of predicting the basic story line (just by thinking about the concept). Therefore, those who find they hate this, have only themselves to blame. Its essentially like ordering junk food, you know what you're buying, you know the convenience, well its the same with movies like this, you're buying your piece of mind fodder escapism and thats it. This ones got double cheese.