There is a difficult paradox that the seeing of this film provides for and that is that there is need for at least another showing or viewing and perhaps even more.Why more than once?I don't know absolutely however the film I felt in its attempt to place the life of this true gentlemen in Bobby Jones was not able to be the communicator Bobby Jones was and even more so the real man was in fact quite a hero both on the Links and otherwise.It is not such a simple task to allow for a value that superseeds a bottom line idealogical premise and as it is not so simple it is as well not that way at all anyway.The truth is that there is no justice in this film that is worth the life and times of Bobby Jones and though there is an attempt to sell this film as the life of Bobby Jones,it seems to me more like a passing motorcade in which an opportunity presented itself and indeed it is in the name of an opportunity that this film was entered into.There is a quality of the timeless and the everlasting that that degree of man represent and indeed the Grand Father was aghast at the playing of Golf on the sabbath.Part of the failure of this film was the films pretense to eclipsing time as it tried to tell the story of Robert Jones.It is much more of a task to know better than to be made fools of when all we as viewers do is say ooh and ahh.This film much to my surprise is something of a failure with an emphasis on the inability to know the world in which we live in and to know the very life and man in which this film entered into when it was decided to make a story called Bobby Jones-A Stroke of Pure Genius.There is a lack of imagination that from time to time render the film something of a Hollywood wannabe rather than the real thing.It is this lack of imagination that provides for the story telling ability and it is this lack of imagination that earmark this film as an opportunity that tried to time it right.It might be further argued that the money men who bank rolled this endeavour were looking to cash in on the time is right.This is that weak and it is as well not entirely without merit so compelling is the story of Bobby Jones that even a weak willed deal like this still is in fact interesting.Bobby Jones is that much the man that even a Hollywood hatchet job could not deny Bobby Jones his place as one of Golfing greatest players though his life story is made thread bare in the movie.Bobby Jones deserves better though I may very well find myself watching this DVD another day with emphasis on another day it is not unlikable and perhaps however mediocre it may very well be worth watching again.
Review of Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
