I know that golf is a pretty popular sport in the USA, but over here it isn't at all. Here most golfers belong to the demographic group of old and fat retired business men and women wearing incredibly ugly pants... Since I'm not one of those people, I'm also not very interested in playing golf or even watching it. So why would I ever want to see a movie about it? Well "Tin Cup" is a comedy, so I hoped for the best and gave it a try...
Kevin Costner plays the role of Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy, a failed pro golfer who lives in a trailer at a crummy driving range which he owns. One day, a beautiful woman called Dr. Molly Griswold, appears at his driving range asking for golf lessons. Of course he's immediately interested in her, but she appears to be the girlfriend of the men he hates the most: PGA superstar David Simms, who he knows for years and who always laughs with McAvoy because he was never able to make something of his life as a pro golfer. But then Dr. Griswold inspires him to start taking himself seriously again and eventually he even decides to try to qualify for the US Open...
Since I'm not a golf fan and don't know much about the game or about the, probably very famous, players that got a little role in this movie, I have to watch for other interesting things. One thing for example I always focus on is the story. A movie always needs a good story, whether it is a thriller, a drama, a comedy. It doesn't matter, but the story needs to be good and if possible also original and that's where the first problems occur. This isn't original at all, but very predictable and to be honest also not very believable (a good player that has wasted his talent but than starts at the US Open golf and does a good job??? I don't think that has happened very often yet).
Another thing that I always pay some attention to is the acting and I have to be honest, that wasn't too bad. Rene Russo, Don Johnson, Linda Hart, Cheech Marin, Kevin Costner... that's not exactly a top cast, but they did pretty well. However, it just isn't enough to save this entire movie, which is really too bad, because it would probably never be a world shocking movie, but it certainly has some potential. Now I give this movie only a 6.5/10.
Kevin Costner plays the role of Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy, a failed pro golfer who lives in a trailer at a crummy driving range which he owns. One day, a beautiful woman called Dr. Molly Griswold, appears at his driving range asking for golf lessons. Of course he's immediately interested in her, but she appears to be the girlfriend of the men he hates the most: PGA superstar David Simms, who he knows for years and who always laughs with McAvoy because he was never able to make something of his life as a pro golfer. But then Dr. Griswold inspires him to start taking himself seriously again and eventually he even decides to try to qualify for the US Open...
Since I'm not a golf fan and don't know much about the game or about the, probably very famous, players that got a little role in this movie, I have to watch for other interesting things. One thing for example I always focus on is the story. A movie always needs a good story, whether it is a thriller, a drama, a comedy. It doesn't matter, but the story needs to be good and if possible also original and that's where the first problems occur. This isn't original at all, but very predictable and to be honest also not very believable (a good player that has wasted his talent but than starts at the US Open golf and does a good job??? I don't think that has happened very often yet).
Another thing that I always pay some attention to is the acting and I have to be honest, that wasn't too bad. Rene Russo, Don Johnson, Linda Hart, Cheech Marin, Kevin Costner... that's not exactly a top cast, but they did pretty well. However, it just isn't enough to save this entire movie, which is really too bad, because it would probably never be a world shocking movie, but it certainly has some potential. Now I give this movie only a 6.5/10.