Too many fans seem to be blown away

Good start, but then it gets ruined

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This is a well written dive into life lessons that people need to succeed at their goals. A golfer winds up in Utopia Texas after losing and imploding during the last hole of a major tournament. He finds another golfer there who teaches him about life and helps improve his game at the same time. He then leaned all of the approaches to life that he needs to succeed. The lessons are life lessons written into a complex story that everyone should see at least once. There are some stereotypical characters in this movie, but beyond that it is good. It is not a comedy, but it has a tiny bit of romance and good feeling in it. Therefore, I would recommend it.

It's always a bad sign during a movie when I find myself thinking, "I should be doing something else with my time." Five minutes into the film and it was depressingly easy to guess what was going to happen next, and to even mouth dialog before it was said. Movies like this are like candy for the brain, which is spinning in neutral because there was no substantial story that wasn't easily predicable.I felt that it was a very shallow and predictable story; the comments about it being just like Pixar's "Cars" are correct. Way too formulaic.And finally there's the overly-strong religious message, with some reviews touting it as a great movie *because* of the message. Sorry, but using a work of fiction written by believers as proof of faith is called circular reasoning. Self-created "facts" don't make for good faith, or a good movie.

I really enjoyed the film with its fantastic cinematography of the idyllic landscapes of Utopia (if indeed it was the film location), the slow and quiet pacing of this small town in Texas, the light and gentle relationship of main characters that left so much to the imagination about how it may turn out. The golf scenes with well known pros such as K J Choi and Ricky Fowler were great. Unfortunately the last third of the movie, beginning with fairly loud background music that has Christian themed lyrics to references of God used quite often, it took the air out of my sail for this film. To me religion is such a personal conviction that should not be commercially pushed on any viewer trying to enjoy a simple movie, I gave it an 8 then backed off to a 5 and settled on a 3 rating because of the hook at the end of the movie.

I love this site and rely on it a lot as a movie lover but needed to add a regular person review here. Kind of getting tired of these "christian" movies. Really...I watched the whole movie only to be told to find out if he won the damn tourney after the movie was over on a religious web site. Give me a break. Don't waste your time on this one. I love fun and happy going movies and am not anti-god....but this is just silly. Don't waste your time. Lord have mercy. The acting was cute...and the story line was even OK...acting was medium but having a movie with an ending that says....if you want to find out what happens go visit my web site so I can preach to you is just ludicrous. It's about as solid as Rick Santorum for president. I would give it a 3.0 as a movie because of the stupid tactics.