The Legend of Bagger Vance
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Movie Reviews of The Legend of Bagger Vance
Movie Review: If you think this movie is about golf, you are missing it.
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie is about golf only in a tangential way. It is an allegory about self-discovery and golf is only the vehicle in this case. It takes place in Savannah, Georgia during the Great Depression where a young woman, Adele (Charlize Theron), attempts to save her deceased father's golf resort by conducting a match among Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, and the local hero Randolph Junah (Matt Damon). Junah, due to the horrors seen by him in the Great War, is reluctant to renew his love affair with Adele or to play any golf - he has "lost his swing". Bagger Vance (Will Smith in a FANTASTIC performance!) shows up and shows Junah how to regain his "authentic swing".
The acting is SUPERB, especially Charlize Theron, Will Smith, Matt Damon, and the young actor who plays Hardy Greaves (the 11 year old assistant caddy).
The photography is FANTASTIC, as is the music!! (I watched it several times for the the music and photography alone.) And the scenery is breath-taking.
Robert Redford (of whom I am NOT a big fan) co-produced and directed this film. It is far and away the best film he has ever done.
Buy it. You will watch it over and over again. It is quite simply a great movie.
Movie Review: An excellent movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Lengend of Bagger Vance" is one of those movies that has a sense of beauty and magic to it. Will Smith does a tremendous job as Bagger. There are a number of one liners he delivers with a smile on his face. Yet, he conveys a deep sense of being more than he appears. What adds to the movie is a tremendous soundtrack. The music has a way of touching the soul and leaving a mark.
It is difficult to put into words what draws me to this movie. The acting, scenery, music all combine to give the viewer a wonderful feast not soon forgotten!
Movie Review: The hasbeen that never really was.
Summary: 5 Stars
I was touched By this film. The meaning of this movie to mewas . God gives all of us a mullagan every day we live.
To keep trying ,not giving up and that anything is
possable. Maybe if i keep trying i can find My swing.
Movie Review: Great family movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a movie the whole family would enjoy. Inspiring,touching movie. Great casting for Hardy Graves,(played by J. Michael Moncrief). Will Smith and Moncrief need to be paired together in another movie. Great chemistry together.Movie Review: At last, a great golf movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
"The game of golf cannot be won, only played." True words from Bagger Vance in a film that surprised me, as I had given up on a great golf movie ever being made. "Caddyshack" is a riot, of course, but it's a party movie that happens to take place at a country club, and "Tin Cup" is barely compelling and has one of the worst endings in movie history.It seems odd that it's taken so long for this to happen. Golf is a subject that many people can wax poetic about at great length, its mythology being a thing of reverence. And perhaps that's why it's taken so long, because that's such a subjective, internal, personal thing, and golf is a game of one where everything is internalized. Man must face the course, the elements, and himself, let alone anyone he's in competition with.
But for me, "The Legend of Bagger Vance" is all fairways and greens, with never a bunker shot or a duck hook into the woods. Oh, sure, like the great game itself, the film occasionally falls a bit short of perfect, but only just a bit, and, again like the great game itself, it also occasionally takes my breath away in a moment of shining brilliance.
This all requires actually caring about the game of golf itself, of course, and any film that utilizes legends Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen in strong supporting roles had better get it right. Well, those two characters are right in line with everything I've ever heard and read about these two, having played and studied the game for 35 years myself, Hagen the hard-drinking womanizer and Jones the perfect Southern gentlemen. That alone is a joy to behold, but add in the scenes where we see the psychology of the game play out and we have the foundation of a great film.
The crowning touch is the way "The Legend of Bagger Vance" gets beyond the externals and helps us feel the internals that the lead character is feeling, going through his struggles on and off the golf course, rising above his long-lost game to play a truly great round of golf again, where, as Bagger says, "Completely stop thinking without falling asleep."
I'd nitpick that Matt Damon plays the lead character of Junuh with too much "I can't believe I hit that shot" on his face, and that Will Smith's title character is treated far too nicely by white folks in the Depression-Era Deep South, but as I say, the film gets the previously unachieved moments so SO right that I can't nitpick much.
Dang, now I've gotta read the book......