I see all these reviews and I keep falling on "Bull Durham". Like this movie was supposed to join the level of Bull Durham. Listen, it's not going to happen. It would be like finding a better baseball player than Babe Ruth...you can't. Finding a better basketball player than Michael Jordan...you can't. The poetry, the philosophy, the wisdom, the level of insight, the humor, the romance, the climax, the ability to stretch a movie without a story and still captivate the viewer, Bull Durham's a masterpiece and it will never be topped again. Starting with the beginning, the references to baseball, you feel the thrills of the sport and then the number of great lines "I'm the player to be named later" and so and so on, this is a movie full of great lines. Unfortunately for Tin Cup, the script is too poor. Not enough good content and it doesn't really impress us. It was more about promoting a sport through the US Open and star golfers than promoting it through the script and the passion and knowledge of the characters' themselves.Golf anyways, is boring to watch and I doubt you can relate as much easily to golf than to baseball. But still, with a good cast. this should be a better movie. The whole Tin Cup nickname makes no sense to me, more an attempt to find a Crash Davis 2.0. or Nuke Lalloosh nickname. I didn't get it, doesn't work for me. The movie has a few funny passages but nothing immortal, nothing we haven't already seen. Just not what I expect from Ron Shelton.The two characters Roy and Molly spend hours flirting with each other, it's a little lame. It's a lot flirting to set up a predictable ending without any sexyness in the end. And at some point, Roy's stubborn antics are just kind of boring, we lose interest in the movie near the end. The whole "I'm going for the win" was funny once but systematically ? Ugh. There's just nothing you're crazy about in this movie, neither the dialogues, the passion, the sport of the romance. Just two characters that end up hitting on each other.Last but not least, if the main character is from Texas, just get an ACTUAL actor from Texas, stop trying to pretend a fake southern accent this stuff just doesn't cut it. My gosh they need to stop making fun of other people's accents -- Kevin Costner doesn't have a southern accent and he didn't needed one. You can go to Texas university and not be from Texas it's okay but my gosh stop faking these southern accents when you can't ! Really annoying.

Well, if you're a golf fan—and by that, I mean you like watching bad movies that have a golf setting—you'll be able to get through this one without boredom setting in. For the rest of you, skip this one and pick another Kevin Costner sports movie.Kevin Costner and sports—a combination we've happily watched three times before Tin Cup and three times after. This one, where Costner plays a has-been golfer who gets back in the game to get, uh, love, just doesn't cut the mustard. Who would have thought? The star is a good-looking guy, the love interest is as pretty as Hollywood can make her, and the promotional poster is really cute (and incidentally doesn't even hint at the movie having anything to do with golf). Somewhere along the line, it falls flat. Probably around the time when Costner shows Rene Russo how to golf and does the whole "I'll stand behind you and show you how to hold the stick" routine.If you like cheesy, kind-of-lousy romantic comedies, go out and rent it. It's not atrocious. You'll live. But if you're in the mood for a better movie (and just as much Kevin Costner yumminess) you're better off watching Bull Durham.

For anybody who loves golf movies this is a great movie to watch. Matt Damon, Will Smith and Charlize Theron are wonderful counterparts to him as are all of the supporting cast. The story is a remarkably deep metaphor that describes the untapped potential in each one of us. We all have, "That Perfect Swing" that we were born with and that we must find in order to make the most out of our lives, no matter what kind of life we have. This is a universal human truth and in a sense this is a movie that speaks to the untapped potential within all of us. "Tin Cup" is a generally enjoyable movie and would likely be found so by both sexes, as it is both sports flick and romantic comedy, and the four main cast members are all great in their roles. Cameo appearances are made by PGA Tour stars of the mid-90's such as Phil Mickelson and Lee Janzen, and Jim Nantz plays himself as a broadcaster.There's lots of cameos from real golf pros, and a side story involving Cheech and the owner of a "gentleman's club" who owns the title to Roy's driving range, and enough real golf going on to keep everything moving along. Overall, an entertaining and enjoyable film with not only a good plot and script, but good acting, accompanied by a good cast of actors and a good director.Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

Like all its characters, including its "villain," Don Johnson, this movie is not perfect but deeply likable. The beginning shots tell us everything we need to know about the world of our hero. An underachiever, he spends his time with a pseudo-family of guys who have probably achieved everything they were capable of - not much. Each's distinct personality is established with a few words. Kevin Costner is infinitely likable. If he told me, as he does Molly, the ultimate object of his quest, to "grip it and rip it," I would grip anything he wanted gripped. Don Johnson, as the movie reaches its climax, conveys the insecurity that underlies his character's arrogance and guides his choices.I love that the movie upends our expectations and pokes fun at sports movie clichés, but at the end of the day, I do like for people to learn something about their lives. At the end of this movie, Tin Cup is making the same choices that derailed his career a dozen years earlier. The movie is a romance, but, although a woman would want to be with the roller coaster that is Tin Cup, would she want him for the father of her children. I don't know.