It is very hard for me to say I have grown up in the presence of truly great movies. Sure there is No Country for Old Men and epics like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and The Harry Potter Series. But this movie is the most underrated of them all. People saw this movie as a simple conventional Disney fairy tale. The Greatest Game Ever Played shows so much more than that. And it is also quite the unconventional movie also. Its shots and sequences are very different from other sports movies, showing how the golfers thought and felt throughout the tournament. Also it shows the other golfer that the main character must face as not the bad guy at all. The bad guy in this movie is society in general. Society is portrayed as bigotry to the poor on the British and American side, the putting down of by the father, and how others can be so wrapped up in themselves and not in each other. The "rival" golfer that Francis Ouimet (Shia Lebouf) must play against is the legendary Harry Vardon (Stephen Dillane). I believe Stephen Dillane should have been nominated for BSA in 2003. Vardon back than was bigger than Tiger Woods. The sport of Golf wasn't as big as it is today, but among its admirers Vardon was treated almost as a deity. He treated Ouimet with dignity and sympathy. I love this movie, and I give it 4/5 stars.
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