ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

lucyanahendrika I like it. Despite or because of what it looked like Christian propaganda. I like it nevertheless.

joeyandemilysmith I give this movie 5 out of 10 because I could not seem to pull my attention away from the movie; apparently I found it *that* riveting, but when I watch a Christian movie, I am on the lookout for any inconsistencies with the Bible and that may explain some of my locked gaze. I did find two things that bothered me about the movie and therefore, I do believe they are biblically inconsistent. First I'll cover the good parts:Not a big weeper myself, I found myself moved to tears several times in the lives portrayed by the characters. The movie accurately portrays the difficult life to which a walk with Christ calls the Christian. On earth, Jesus' saving grace does not prevent the Christian from pain or difficult, challenging sufferings--in fact, it calls the Christian deeper into such things, while being able to cling to Christ ever tighter because of the true hope He gave/gives us. This movie reflects this well.What I find troublesome about the movie is the background of the business man who ends up rejecting Christ and going to hell. Our hell-bound businessman had parents and a grandmother who were loving and precious in the sight of Christ and who also prayed fervently for the businessman's salvation for a long time. In the movie, Jesus covers this more than once in different ways and is revealed in flashbacks. However, this man still ends up angry with Jesus and choosing not-Him, which is hell. That "encounter" communicates that prayer is ineffective and unproductive!Also, that particular storyline is inconsistent with itself in that if this man was raised by such loving parents and grandparent, that he would not grow up to be such an angry and unthoughtful person, unless the grand/parents themselves had gross oversight themselves in attending to the emotional needs of their hell-bound son. I recognize that there is room for this in the Bible; look at how David's own son wanted to kill him! However, the Bible clearly states how David broke His law and the resulting consequences are tragic; David fathered his first six children from six different foreign (non-believing) women, and he wasn't there for the kids. In contrast, our businessman was not without a loving and caring upbringing. The only thing the story relates is that he was mortally embarrassed by his youthful foreign accent and poor upbringing. Godly parents would have coached him through that. I also found a theological inconsistency with the movie, in which Jesus stated that He leaves the choice to commit our lives to Him up to us. I once took pride in that notion myself, but after further study of the Word, I now understand that it is only Christ in me that made that choice and not my own wretched self at all. The Lord had set my life up in such a way that compelled me deeply and with all the molecules that comprise me to give my life to Jesus, not my own choice. Not everyone is going to be elected and Jesus only died and then rose again for the elect.Sure its a low-budget film, but if the story is good, that is all that matters. The best actor was the husband whose wife wanted to leave him. His portrayal made me cry. And the lady who played his wife was pretty good at being cruel to him. Whoever played Jesus did a pretty good job of looking at and speaking to the characters in love. Jesus did a good job in jerking my tears also in His interactions with the hell-bound businessman, even though it was to me, theologically inconsistent.

SternMarcus First let me disclose I am not a Christian, nor even religious, but I find the subject extremely interesting. I considered myself fair and balanced and wouldn't rate a movie poorly simply because I didn't like or agree with the "message" or a particular actor, etc.The really high ratings seem to be focused on the "message" or topic rather than the movie itself. I watched the movie hoping for something along the lines of "The Man from Earth (2007)", not so much for controversial ideas but at least something thought provoking. The movie missed the mark on so many levels it's shameful.Other negative reviews have already touched on many of the cinematic issues, from acting, dialogue, music score and even continuity, so I won't rehash those. While those issues were hard to take at times, the core of the movie was simply poorly developed.The movie portrayed the believers, and non-believer (truthfully there was only one), as one dimensional, simplistic and not very intelligent. Intelligent people would have asked serious and rather profound questions, this lot didn't ask any. At best the questions were singular, simplistic and dropped after a simple response from Jesus.Overall the movie can be summed up as: Jesus loves you, no one can love you more than Jesus, if you blindly love Jesus you'll live eternally in peace and love in Heaven, and if you don't blindly follow Jesus you will burn in Hell. The message might be what some want to hear, but the journey the movie took to get there was empty and not worth the effort.

ivan2012 This is a decent Christian film based around a lot of dialogue in a small diner. It discusses certain aspects of Protestant Christianity like how salvation is a free gift, but it doesn't cover everything. It's a solid film to show at an evangelistic meeting or something like that. Because the film is based on dialogue with little action, it can be a bit boring at times. I think I closed my eyes and almost fell asleep for a couple minutes near the end. I guess I prefer a movie like Left Behind more.I had modest expectations, but I thought the acting was surprisingly solid. I didn't realize the football guy was played by the wrestler Sting (Steve Borden) until after I watched it. Apparently, he is a Christian.