Seven Days in Utopia (2011)

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.

Finally a main-stream fictional movie that's not afraid of incorporating a Christian message (quite rare these days). I chose this film while on a flight back from Japan solely because I saw that Robert Duvall (Genius) was attached. I had no idea it was even about Golf! And after the film finished I watched it again (either that or go thru the rest of the Hollywood-hyped crap available) and for all the "haters" out there who discarded this film purely because the director incorporates scripture, what can I say? Perhaps try opening your own closed and brainwashed minds and watch, listen and learn. And if that doesn't work? Well, then I Guess I'll just have to pray for ya'll!

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.

This was seriously one of the worst movies I have ever seen and I have seen my share of bad movies. I was excited to see it because I love golf. I had no idea it was loaded with religious propaganda. I of course, fast forwarded it through all the bible and church stuff. The love story was soooooo boring. zzzzzzzzzzzz.... It was the Mr. Miyagi on golf kind of movie and the way it was delivered was that the teacher is so brilliant because he thinks about golf outside the box. For example, he gets the main character to fly a plane because flying a plane and golf are like the same thing. Wait. What!? Okayyyyy.... Oh yeah, and there is no ending but I guess it works out better because I can only imagine how badly he would have written it so leaving it blank is probably better.I never write reviews for movies but this movie was seriously so bad I had to. A 10 year old could have put together a better plot for this movie.EPIC FAIL!