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The movie was enjoyable to me. I didn't expect it to be anything but what it was, a family movie with a message (kinda/sorta). No sex, no murders, some family drama, a cute cast. No actor/actress had to overly 'emote' in this movie, it looked like it was relaxing for them to make, too. So what if it was predictable? So what if the ending was a 'little lacking in closure'. So what if there's a lead in to a religious site? I didn't mind. I spend very long hours managing my businesses, writing my books, mentoring my people... it can be quite stressful. It is not often that I find a movie or TV series that can reduce my stress and finally allow me to drift off to a deep sleep afterward. When I do watch something that doesn't aggravate me or cause me to have bad dreams or obsessively negative thoughts, I am a happy camper. This movie does that. Lucas Black is a sweet little boy (to this 66 year old), and he is cute. I liked that it was a 'normal people' movie, no sex from the get go, that is soooo overworked in the movie world. Did he win the tournament or lose it? By that final golf stroke, it really did not matter, that's the key point. Reality had set in and Luke (the main character) had had an epiphany meant only for him. He grokked that golf is only a game, and winning or losing it (if you discount the big-buck point of pro golf) doesn't matter to a hill of beans in a lifetime that should be spent in self-assessment and wonder. So I'm happy with the movie overall. It felt like a 'nice surprise' like when someone buys you a gift that you actually like (hey I'm not the only Virgo out there). As for Robert Duvall , he can do no wrong. He is a veteran actor who moved through this movie as though he were a well-balanced and deeply centered individual. I love the way he does understated 'looks'.But in reality, is it the actors or the DIRECTOR who brings out the best in the actors? I don't know, they never let ME be anything other than the prompter (bah humbug). Nice movie, nice 'cow' (I wondered why they called it a cow when it was so clearly a bull. I was raised on a cattle ranch and no way, even for jocularity, would we ever call a bull a 'cow'. That was kinda odd.) It was nice how the cowboy ended up liking Luke ... that was touching. Watch the movie, don't go to the website mentioned at the end unless you are a true Seeker, but even then, just grab your Bible and start reading it again. No worries for you 'there is no god' naysayers, there's no mention of God in the movie, only a Bible is shown a couple of times.

Netflix often throws up some good to great films I haven't heard of. God Bless America, Headhunters, Hacchi. Films worth taking a chance on when they're right there in front of you. Then of course there's the flip side. The films you wish you hadn't stumbled across. Guess which category this belongs in?To be fair Seven Days starts out not too badly. It seems a harmless, if quaint, little film about a stranded golfer. Now, I was happy to overlook the absurdity of anyone, let alone a professional golfer, being stranded for a week because of a broken car. They could surely have imagined a better reason for him staying but hey ho. We'll let that one slide. Seven Days has quite a few flaws. The first one is the utterly charmless performance of the lead, Lucas Black. Don't hover on the name. I'm doubting we'll be seeing much of this fella. His vacant performance makes him impossible to empathise with and in one fell swoop I'm out of the movie. But wait! The great Robert Duvall is in it. Surely he can save it? Em, no. Poor Robert Duvall. He looks bored stiff and who can blame him? Acting alongside captain charisma must have been an absolute chore. Ergo Mr Duvall phones in such a sleepy performance it had me questioning whether he was actually ill and loaded up on meds.So we have a dullard as leading man and a half asleep Mr Duvall. What next? How about cookie cutter supporting characters with such endearing hearts and spirits you wonder if any such place on earth can possibly exist. Then of course the movie reveals it's TRUE intentions. It's not really about golf. Or sport. Or anything for that matter. Why, it's all about the good LORD and how if you follow his will you TOO can be as infallible and loving as these kind folks. The equally awful Book Of Eli pulled a similar stunt.What absolute nonsense. At least when it was boring it wasn't being offensive. The last half hour though is borderline insulting. Now I suspected, even early on, there was some religious allegory in the movie. I can accept that. Sleight of hand preaching though in a film dressed up as a sporting drama? Shame on the makers. Even more shame on the disgraceful plug for some preachy website at the end. An unforgivable slice of opportunism, even for religious zealots.Even had Seven Days in Utopia stayed the course as a golfing drama it would have struggled to get out of first gear and remained a 3 star film. It has dull acting, entirely unbelievable characters and far too many clichés to be listed. Doc Hollywood anyone? The religious turn it takes however hammers it firmly into the 1 star category. No Utopia here. Just movie hell.

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.

Pro golfer Luke Chisholm (Black) self- destructs on the last hole of a tournament and takes off in his car. He sees a fork in the road and takes the road to Utopia, a Texas town. After crashing into a fence he is met by Johnny Crawford (Duvall) a rancher and once a pro golfer back in the day. Johnny sees an opportunity to help the young pro and he gives Luke a proposition. This started out like a pretty good golf story, but there were problems with the acting and pacing all around. I wasn't convinced about anything because I had the feeling none of the actors were convinced either. Oh, they went thru the motions, but you could tell there was something missing: belief in what they were saying.Duvall pontificates throughout this and that's okay up to a point, but I had the feeling he knew he had to say the lines, but again, there was something missing: conviction. He said his lines like he was on roller skates. It was like we really didn't get into the story but here come the lines anyway. Something was missing: conviction. Maybe it was too much pontification. The scenes and dialogues felt rushed, and there was too much hesitation when other actors said their lines. Again, no conviction. Perhaps there was too much material to cover to allow a scene to develop so it became comfortable, likable and convincing. The last quarter of the movie became a religious quest and it became a little too much. The director should have checked with Kirk Cameron (child star on Growing Pains TV show) who stars in many of these types of religious themed movies. Actually, I felt blind-sided. For most of the movie, it was about golf training, such as it was, then we get hit with a pretty heavy religious aspect the rest of the way. And, here we find conviction in Johnny's dialogue. Took long enough to find it. Where was it before?Of course, Luke manages to learn the lessons Johnny gave him and when he has a putt on the last hole of the Texas Open to win the tournament, the movie stops in mid-putt and we get hit with: go to http://www.didhemaketheputt.com.OK, I bit and went there and I have no idea if he made the putt, but that wasn't the point of the movie, now was it? And, when I went there, I was hit with more religious material. Had I known about all the religious stuff in the beginning, this probably wouldn't have bothered me. Hey, I have watched some Kirk Cameron movies and they are good. But, here, I felt I was blind-sided. After all this was not anything like The Greatest Game Ever Played or a Bobby Jones story. (5/10) Violence: Not really. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: Soft stuff only and not much of it.