dgriggs6
I am an avid and pretty good golfer. Have played it for about 55 years now. Although the opening scenes in which Luke self-destructs on the 18th hole of the final round of a very important golf tournament for him -- when he foolishly listens to bad advice from his very bossy, caddying father -- was very contrived, at least something like that conceivably could happen. Later Luke drives through the countryside of the Texas hill country and decides to take the turn to a community called Utopia. Then there is another very unrealistic scene. Luke is driving and stares at a guy (turns out to be Duvall/Johnny Crawford) in a field placing flagsticks in what does not look like (but is) a golf course. Doesn't look at the road ahead of him for about 4 seconds, then finally returns his gaze and discovers an enormous steer standing in the road directly ahead of him. Instead of abruptly down-shifting and braking, he turns off the road and slams his car into and through a sturdy wooden fence. Others here describe what happens in Utopia, quite a bit of which I liked. But at the end of the movie, after he gets into the Texas Open (an official PGA event) and has a chance to win it all, they don't even show the final putt!!! STUPID!!!
kiminicooper1
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.
jxastudios
As an avid viewer of cinema, I decided to watch "Seven Days in Utopia" on Netflix. I thought it was boring in itself, but the message of "see, feel, trust" is really useful in life. Also, it was a slightly entertaining deja-vu of 'The Karate Kid" (from the 1980s) and "Cars". My biggest gripe about the movie was that it left everyone wondering if he made the putt, and the narrator saying it didn't matter. Also, the studio set up didhemaketheputt.com as if the movie was based on a true story.Overall, this movie was going to deserve a 7/10 for the valuable Christian message embedded in it, but got a 6/10 for the cheesy relationship between two of the main characters. If you like movies with Christian messages, such as "Letters to God" and "Fireproof", you will love this movie.
wteamtiger
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.
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