Legend of Bagger Vance

Pros: Strong performances from Matt Damon and Will Smith, Symbolism of the movie.
Cons: A bit slow at times.

Introduction The Legend of Bagger Vance is literally an unknown movie here in India. Though both Will Smith and Matt Damon are popular stars here, this movie somehow never came into the limelight. During recent management training on ...

Pros: Nice cinematography, Good acting considering the shallow script
Cons: Lacks depth and lacks character development by relying on symbolism and stereotypes, Have you ever seen the sun set so suddenly as it does on the final hole?

The Legend of Bagger Vance is a movie that should have a strong connection for me. I’m a sports fan, and my dad is completely devoted to playing golf, sometimes even playing a round in the middle of January in Illinois when the fairways...

Pros: Wonderful film about life's lessons and a game.
Cons: None

What The Natural was to baseball and Hoosiers was to basketball, The Legend of Bagger Vance is to golf. Robert Redford has taken the novel by Steven Pressfield, and turned this fable into a wonderful and moving film. A...

Pros: A reasonable step up for those enjoying 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White'.
Cons: Painfully slow. Shallow flat characters.

Once again a film maker spends Millions of dollars on sets and lighting and on hiring great actors, yet fails to bother developing the characters to any degree.

The hero, Captain Junuh, was a hometown Golden Child. A great golf player and...

Pros: Good family entertainment, with quality performances, a good story, and stunning photography
Cons: Charlize Theron "faints" at her father's funeral. A little too Southern Belle for this hardnosed Cleveland girl.

This one line sums up this movie, and while those of you searching for the MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN type action in Savannah may have been disappointed, I was delighted. I can almost hear the groans at my sentimentalism . But these days it is hard to find...

Pros: using a golf match as a mystical metaphor for life & a visual feast for the eyes
Cons: superficially developed characters, slow-pacing

From the opening shot of (uncredited) Jack Lemmon reaching for a club, muttering, "Why do I play a game that's destined to kill me?," you know you're in for a magical, mystical golf metaphor. Through flashbacks and Lemmon's narration,...

Pros: beautiful visuals, some effective performances
Cons: story stretched too thin, copies too many other successes

The Legend of Bagger Vance is cinematic irony defined, at least for its director. Robert Redford takes this story of an athlete, battling demons from his past, and turns into a reflection of a director trying recapture past glory by revisiting his...

Pros: A gentle movie that teaches more about life than golf.
Cons: Perhaps a little too deep for some.

Throughout the years there have been many great sporting movies that are both inspirational and sad.

The Field of Dreams is a mystical journey into fulfillment and magic that transcends a mere baseball game and produces a...

Pros: The wonderful look of golfing greens
Cons: Extremely difficult to get into the minds of the characters

The plot:
Elderly Hardy Greaves (Jack Lemmon) looks back in time to when he first developed his love for golf. As a boy at the start of the great pre-WWII depression in Savannah, Georgia he met two men that would change his life, Rannulph...

Pros: Great costumes, good cinematography
Cons: Unsatisfying ending, script, too much lofty dialogue

When seeing the previews to this movie, I thought that this movie had all the makings of a classic... a young guy faces adversity in some sporting tournament, winning in the end and getting the girl in the process. Many movies have successfully used...

Pros: Matt Damon, Will Smith, and Charlize Theron come together.
Cons: You might need some tissue for this one.

I sent my husband to Blockbuster to rent a couple of movies and he came home with The Legend of Bagger Vance and my reaction was, "Does this look like a drama that I would likee? It looks more like a sports movie for yourself," and boy was I WRONG! The...

Pros: Fine Performances All Around
Cons: Some Small Problems with the Editing

Last year saw the release of two films about the love of one sport. Sam Raimi's baseball opus For Love of the Game and Oliver Stone's football film Any Given Sunday were expressions of director's loving a sport so much that they became lost in their own...

Pros: Great historical setting
Cons: shallow character development, weak climax

Yesterday, I went to see this movie with hopes for a good movie. Emerging from the box office, I realized this film was a mixed bag, perhaps more negative features than positive.

The Good

Director Robert Redford did a superb...

Pros: Matt Damon isn't bad. It's about golf.
Cons: Will Smith just isn't Buddha. It's about golf.

I was really looking forward to this movie. Somehow, I usually like golf movies. Tin Cup was pretty good. Dead Solid Perfect was excellent. I suppose there is just no point in throwing together a really bad golf movie. You are narrowing your field...

Pros: Lush production design, good characterizations
Cons: Vance is a bit weak, weak resolutions

When you go to a film directed by Robert Redford, you can expect a well-crafted, beautifully made film that is a pleasure to watch.

"The Legend of Bagger Vance" is a story told by an aging golfer (Jack Lemmon) remembering back to...