Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 129
Fresh: 55 | Rotten: 74
Despite the talent involved in The Legend of Bagger Vance, performances are hindered by an inadequate screenplay full of flat characters and bad dialogue. Also, not much happens, and some critics are offended by how the film glosses over issues of racism.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 20
Despite the talent involved in The Legend of Bagger Vance, performances are hindered by an inadequate screenplay full of flat characters and bad dialogue. Also, not much happens, and some critics are offended by how the film glosses over issues of racism.
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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 48,740
Robert Redford directed this adaptation of a novel by Steven Pressfield that uses golf as a metaphor for one man's spiritual and philosophical journeys. Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) was a gifted amateur golfer from Savannah, GA, until traumatic experiences during World War I shattered his confidence and sent him into a spiral of alcoholism. In 1931, Adele Invergordon (Charlize Theron), a beautiful heiress who once loved Junuh, inherits a spectacular but financially ailing golf course after the
PG-13, 2 hr. 7 min.
Nov 3, 2000 Wide
Apr 3, 2001
$30.4M
DreamWorks SKG
All Critics (141) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (56) | Rotten (74) | DVD (20)
Another lusciously produced, emotionally clammy Redford enterprise -- forced, phony mythmaking filled with tinged sunsets and full moons.
The men and women inhabiting this motion pictures are types, ciphers, and mouthpieces for slogans, not individuals we can believe in and care for.
Leaves an impression like dew on a fairway: pretty to look at, and very quickly gone.
Supernatural is not much better than subhuman: Hollywood is still, in the year 2000, disinclined to let black actors play human beings.
Redford should have spent more time thinking about his characters than about the meaning of it all.
It handles a sports movie the way Billie Holiday handled a trashy song, by finding the love and pain beneath the story.
Some people will find it simplistic and cliched.
Benign, banal, and sometimes boring inspirational drama.
Accepting the zen of golf is easy. It's The Legend of Bagger Vance and a callow Will Smith as a mystical golf guru that's hard to swallow.
Instead of taking on a life of its own, Redford's film reminds you of ones you've seen before. Legends deserve better.
The movie does contain some heartfelt performances.
Sit this one out. Please.
Uplifting feel-good drama from director Robert Redford - chock-full of flaws and easy to criticize, but nonetheless enjoyable.
Eastern theology suffers the same fate as Western theology in today's Hollywood, which gave God a minimal role in The Prince of Egypt.
... most decidedly a fantasy, and the rules for fantasy are that the controlling intelligence behind the fantasy gets to change the rules at any time
Robert Redford's beguiling drama reminds us even the most hopeless causes can be turned around through the power of positive thinking and perserverance, if we're willing to embrace the possibility of success instead of the probability of failure.
La cinta es melosa en grado superlativo, sin embargo tiene momentos emotivos que encantarán al auditorio (me incluyo, me incluyo).
completely absurd, but a guilty pleasure of mine. smith and damon played off of each other so well and theron has never been sexier in a film, really a silly but fun movie.
January 23, 2007
Super Reviewer
Extremely bland even for it being a golf movie. The acting was just average, no one gave a standout performance. Robert Redford really tried here, but it just didn't pan out. There just wasn't a strong enough story to carry a movie. It's also incredibly corny at times.
January 27, 2010Super Reviewer
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