Life as a round of golf, only less compelling.
When the family patriarch, an insane golf fanatic, dies, his two sons and their children travel to Ireland to scatter his ashes and play the annual family golf tournamnet.
I honestly don't know how to write this film up. It's an amusing, if over long, story of people playing golf and hanging out while scattering ashes. It's genuinely not bad. But at the same time I'm not certain I know who this film is for or who would want to watch it more than once.
Far from cathartic, this is just watching a bunch of people wander the Irish country side and play golf while cracking wise. While there is some familial discussions, and a genuinely moving song in a pub, nothing really dramatic happens. Its people wandering around golf courses and talking about...nothing. There are some laughs. Its good time with good people, but to what end? Nothing happens. When it ended I simply wondered why this runs 121 minutes.
Watching the film I was struck by the notion that this film existed purely to allow the cast and crew to have a paid golf holiday. I mean the vast majority of this film is simply the foresome wandering the courses.(Which seem to be completely deserted other than them). Yea there are a couple of interactions, with people at the hotel, on a beach and the old family farm, but the sequences are brief and go nowhere and add nothing.
I like the film (I mean they are good people), but at the same time I never need to see it again because nothing really happens to engage us. Its a kind of observational drama, where there is no real drama (outside of who wind the games), just golf.
Who was this made for?
Unless you are a golfer, odds are you'll watch, smile for a bit and then never think of it again.
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