Seven Days in Utopia

Here is a movie I really wanted to like. A good message + Robert Duvall should be a win. It wasn't. just when you think the acting is passable they would have a scene or a big of dialogue that feels just wrong. What was right was Deborah Ann Wall. A fine performance and love interest to ouR "hero".  Well they flirt a little, but you have no idea if the end up together. He tries to kiss her once, gets shut down and told it doesn't mean never, then leaves her in Utopia. Strike 1. And there are a few story things that irk me, but one in particular. There is a part in the movie where Luke (hero) must learn to properly visualize his shot and then paint it. Well the says that it will take this really complicated bull crap shot, but it clearly doesn't. They act like it is behind the tree and he will have to curve it. When he takes the shot he hits it straight by the tree. No curve, just pops it by the tree. And the painting he draws... well, maybe he should be painting instead of drawing. Strike 2. And he has this big turn around where he realizes that life is not about the game. It's about family, love, faith. Which is great. Because in my opinion it is. He takes his new mind frame and plays some awesome golf. All the way to a play off with the #1 golfer in the world Tea Kwan Ho (Choi) and when he takes  putt that would make him the victor, it stops. Then Duvall voices over, "Does he make the putt? Does it really matter?" then they tell you to go to some website to see if he made it. STRIKE 3. I haven't checked, because that is crap. OF COURSE IT MATTERS, YOU IDIOTS! You want him to make the putt. You want him to be enlightened AND be awesome. This whole thing was a huge waste of time because of that garbage. They appear to have had a budget, plugs (from Callaway, to Odyssey, to the Golf channel), and a decent cast. and they screwed it up. which is not something you can afford to do when you alienate people because you are about golf. Watch Bagger Vance or Tin Cup and then we'll talk. btw don't you love the strike thing for a movie about golf? OUT

this should have happened