Gee, itd make a great Dreamworks triple feature with Field of Dreams and Seabiscuit, with all the quasi-supernatural spiritualism - the transcendence without religious discipline the new Pope hates so much - all wrapped up into strained sports metaphors. If you could stay awake through all three movies, you might attain an early Nirvana, especially since they all seem to have the same musical score filling the long slow motion scenes and altered consciousness of the perfect swing or making catch. Bagger Vance as an otherworldly angel with sage worldly advice (who obviously used his angelic powers to transcend the southern racism of the time - anybody remember the Song of the South?) not only helps the hero win, but instantaneously patches up a relationship hed ditched 12 years earlier - because of the war and all. By the way, does the dew slow a ball down, or speed it up? All right, its a good movie. I like the politics. And the cinematography. But how much liberal escapism do we need in a decade? On the other hand, maybe Im jaded. My wife thinks so, and asked me last night why I had to shoot everything down. I would have given it 3 stars, but I dont want to sleep in the garage for the next week, so Im giving it 4.

It was a cure for my insomnia.

Does not belong in this list. It wasn't that bad. It did have Charlize Theron.

I liked the movie, I watched it a few times. I am a golf fan, I liked the sequences between Bagger and Juhun on the course, Bagger trying to teach him how to play again. The love story was a unwelcomed distraction, they should have stayed with the golf. The man that played Bobby Jones had one hell of a swing, it was almost poetic, just like Jones himself. If you can get over the fact that a black man would not be allowed anywhere near a professional golf course in the South in the 1930s, it isn't that bad of a movie.

Pretentious, politically correct hogwash. I've seen phonebooks that would make a better script.

I'm somewhat a friend of Jim Cavesal(the actor in this movie and PAssion of the Christ). So I saw this film, had no high expections. It was o.k. actually. Like Watto said not a great movie but it dosen't belong with this list.

Not the greatest movie ever, but doesn't belong on this list.

A complete crap sandwich. While Redford included some gorgeous long-lens shots of the sunrise along the Georgia coast and the beautiful scenery everywhere else. Everything else about the movie was terrible. First of all, it took place in the twenties or the forties (I forget), a time when no black man would have been allowed anywhere near a golf course throughout the south. So why would Will Smith's character be such an expert? By watching rich white men play, from a distance of course? And if he did like to watch people play, why would he bother to become an expert on a game that someone of his background and skin color could not take part in? Anyway, Bagger Vance knows golf, in some sappy Zen kind of way, and he coaches Matt Damon so he can save the world. I'm kidding, it is so he can get his confidence back and win the girl. Why would some poor country black man in Georgia at that time give a damn about some neurotic cracker's relationship problems? The dialogue is embarassing and doesn't do any of the stars any favors. I respect Robert Redford as a person, but his movies invariably suck.

I thought it was an OK movie....