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The Legend of Bagger Vance

2000

Robert Redford

Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill ...

6.1

11,397

Drama Set in the the 1930's, a WWI veteran and war hero, Rannulph (Damon), reluctantly agrees to play a game of golf with two of the great golfers of the time - champions Bobby Jones (Gretsch) and Walter Hagen (McGill). Rannulph had been poised for golf greatness until he became a soldier in the war. Nevertheless, he soon finds the game futile until his caddy, Bagger Vance (Smith), teaches him the secret of the authentic golf stroke as well ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Redford plays the game of filmmaking to reveal what he holds sacred: story, character, feeling, thoughtful pacing, and an alertness of nuances of honor and shame that most movies skip in the rush to the rush."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It could have been punched up into cliches and easy thrills, but no: It handles a sports movie the way Billie Holiday handled a trashy song, by finding the love and pain beneath the story (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Golf Angel to the Rescue. (...) Not only is it excruciatingly boring -- but its central premises are so banal and dubious as to border on offensiveness."	NEG
United States	Bob Graham SFGATE	"The competition sequences on the golf links, with the splendid camera work of Michael Ballhaus, and exactly the right amount of digital tweaking, are the real revelations of this film."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Golf fans might derive some interest, but it's very weak and a waste of that very watchable comic performer Will Smith."	NEG
United Kingdom	Emma Cochrane Empire	"If you like 'em old-fashioned, well-acted, beautifully evocative and put together with the gentle but assured touch of a man who understands cinema, then yes (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"A moving story of one man's struggle against a game, his past, and his willingness to surrender to both."	POS

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