Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

SnoopyStyle Young golfer Luke Chisholm (Lucas Black) runs away after struggling in a big tournament. His father is his demanding overbearing coach. He crashes his car in the small town of Utopia. He meets an old pro Johnny Crawford (Robert Duvall) who promises to find his game if he stays for seven days. He falls for beautiful waitress Sarah (Deborah Ann Woll), and comes to terms with his father.This is Christian movie with a lot of touchy Zen like feel. It's the Karate Kid of golf movies with Robert Duvall as the new Mr Miyagi. It all adds to its hokey charm. Robert Duvall is solid, and Lucas Black has good enough presence. This is a simple story and it does exactly what you expect. The only surprise comes from the ending.The movie ends by not showing whether the important putt goes in or not. It's an unusual way to make a statement. I'm fine with it. At least, it's unique.

Tuong Nguyen I really enjoyed the film with its fantastic cinematography of the idyllic landscapes of Utopia (if indeed it was the film location), the slow and quiet pacing of this small town in Texas, the light and gentle relationship of main characters that left so much to the imagination about how it may turn out. The golf scenes with well known pros such as K J Choi and Ricky Fowler were great. Unfortunately the last third of the movie, beginning with fairly loud background music that has Christian themed lyrics to references of God used quite often, it took the air out of my sail for this film. To me religion is such a personal conviction that should not be commercially pushed on any viewer trying to enjoy a simple movie, I gave it an 8 then backed off to a 5 and settled on a 3 rating because of the hook at the end of the movie.

wteamtiger I love this site and rely on it a lot as a movie lover but needed to add a regular person review here. Kind of getting tired of these "christian" movies. Really...I watched the whole movie only to be told to find out if he won the damn tourney after the movie was over on a religious web site. Give me a break. Don't waste your time on this one. I love fun and happy going movies and am not anti-god....but this is just silly. Don't waste your time. Lord have mercy. The acting was cute...and the story line was even OK...acting was medium but having a movie with an ending that says....if you want to find out what happens go visit my web site so I can preach to you is just ludicrous. It's about as solid as Rick Santorum for president. I would give it a 3.0 as a movie because of the stupid tactics.

bob-rutzel-1 Pro golfer Luke Chisholm (Black) self- destructs on the last hole of a tournament and takes off in his car. He sees a fork in the road and takes the road to Utopia, a Texas town. After crashing into a fence he is met by Johnny Crawford (Duvall) a rancher and once a pro golfer back in the day. Johnny sees an opportunity to help the young pro and he gives Luke a proposition. This started out like a pretty good golf story, but there were problems with the acting and pacing all around. I wasn't convinced about anything because I had the feeling none of the actors were convinced either. Oh, they went thru the motions, but you could tell there was something missing: belief in what they were saying.Duvall pontificates throughout this and that's okay up to a point, but I had the feeling he knew he had to say the lines, but again, there was something missing: conviction. He said his lines like he was on roller skates. It was like we really didn't get into the story but here come the lines anyway. Something was missing: conviction. Maybe it was too much pontification. The scenes and dialogues felt rushed, and there was too much hesitation when other actors said their lines. Again, no conviction. Perhaps there was too much material to cover to allow a scene to develop so it became comfortable, likable and convincing. The last quarter of the movie became a religious quest and it became a little too much. The director should have checked with Kirk Cameron (child star on Growing Pains TV show) who stars in many of these types of religious themed movies. Actually, I felt blind-sided. For most of the movie, it was about golf training, such as it was, then we get hit with a pretty heavy religious aspect the rest of the way. And, here we find conviction in Johnny's dialogue. Took long enough to find it. Where was it before?Of course, Luke manages to learn the lessons Johnny gave him and when he has a putt on the last hole of the Texas Open to win the tournament, the movie stops in mid-putt and we get hit with: go to http://www.didhemaketheputt.com.OK, I bit and went there and I have no idea if he made the putt, but that wasn't the point of the movie, now was it? And, when I went there, I was hit with more religious material. Had I known about all the religious stuff in the beginning, this probably wouldn't have bothered me. Hey, I have watched some Kirk Cameron movies and they are good. But, here, I felt I was blind-sided. After all this was not anything like The Greatest Game Ever Played or a Bobby Jones story. (5/10) Violence: Not really. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: Soft stuff only and not much of it.