Tin Cup Reviews

Nowadays, Ron Shelton seems to be pretty much retired but back in the 90’s, he specialized himself in the sport flicks and I especially enjoyed ‘White Men Can’t Jump’. Later on, he directed also this flick about golf and, even though it was nothing really amazing, I thought it was actually a decent feature in this genre. First of all, I know it is a rather stupid detail but it is not very often that I came across such a generic and underwhelming poster. Anyway, even though I don’t care much about golf as a sport, like most of the individual sports, it was fairly easy to provide some drama and to show some uplifting scenes. And that’s also the main issue with this kind of movies. Indeed, when you watch a game or any competition, the biggest thrill is that you (usually) don’t know what would be the outcome and this unpredictability creates most of the excitement. In a sport movie, most of this excitement is gone because everything is scripted and so there are no real skills involved whatsoever. Still, Kevin Costner and Rene Russo were both really charming and had some great chemistry together and the whole thing was rather fun to watch. To conclude, even though it was rather generic and pedestrian, I thought it was a fairly entertaining picture and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.