The 1913 US Pro-Am Golf Championship was legend (a playoff between British pride and an American kid amateur). It features unbeatable backstories crammed with social/cultural issues of class & country, dramatically, it’s a ‘gimme.’ But actor turned helmer Bill Paxton, working from a script aimed squarely 7 yr-old golfers, is so in thrall to CGI overkill, attempting to wow us with concrete realizations, you never believe what you see on the screen. Fatal for a sports drama. A flavorless cast hardly helps (only the chubby fifth grade caddy stands out) and the continuity is so sloppy (I continued dozens of strokes from the two finalists after the 16th hole) that the ebb & flow of the game is lost. It’s a two hour highlights reel with over saturated colors, pumped up emotional music cues and over-edited shots seen largely out of context.
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