Tommy's Honour

You can probably only name a handful of "great" golf movies before getting down to titles featuring an abbreviated Tim Conway.

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This 19th-century tale of love and rivalry celebrates legendary father-son golfers.

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Celebrating golf’s earliest champions, Tommy’s Honour is par for the biopic course.

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Movies about sports inevitably divide between those which appeal mainly to devotees of the game depicted and those with cinematic or dramatic values capable of attracting a much wider audience.

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This story of teenage golf sensation ‘Young’ Tom Morris is a decent rather than dazzling film to open the Edinburgh film festival, kept on course Peter Mullan and Jack Lowden as father and son.

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It may be too tall an order for any filmmaker to fill, but this heartfelt Scottish attempt to deal with the popularity of golf in the 20th century tries too hard.

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Tommy’s Honour is never boring, but at best it invites a smattering of polite applause, not an upturned barrel of Gatorade.

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The performances are desultory, the musical score bullying and the drama — aside from the game-changing placement of inconvenient shrubbery — as predictable as Tom senior’s steadily sprouting beard.

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Seeing what St. Andrews’ greens must have looked like in their native days before all golf courses became zealously manicured is refreshing. The film’s action, however, is rarely filmed in a way that highlights the action, and the story’s biographical elements lack dimension and drama.

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