Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

RichieLovesGodHisFather Some people might consider me bias here but the truth is I am not prejudice.I enjoyed this movie.I am Italian/American and trained and sparred in boxing gyms in ghetto neighborhoods.My late trainer always called me his adopted son and I loved him dearly enough to say goodbye too him on his death bed before he died of cancer.This is nothing personal towards the makers and the participants of the gospel.What I didn't like about the movie they never spoke about God's Ten Commandments nor did their church display them.It is the same old age old story when it comes to religious films they are all reluctant to preach about God's Ten Commandments for what they actually stand for,and while I'm on the subject of churches and films being made in the name of God:How come none of them have banners put up for God that he is The King Of His Universe?? God also created the universe as well as other worlds,and the bible states put up your banners for God.Show me one church that puts up banners for God showing he is King of His Universe.I keep doing what I do,promoting the most powerful laws ever written in the history of the world mainly because God himself wrote them and trying to give God his unspoken and unwritten glory's.

preppy017 I wouldn't rate this a bad movie. I mostly enjoyed it. However, I was still somewhat disappointed. My expectations may have been higher than this movie entailed. Based on the cover photo, I was originally expecting not only "the prodigal son" to return, but also take his father's place on the pulpit. In the end, I found the movie was supposed to promote salvation--key words: "supposed to." The plot shares similar ideas with "The Fighting Temptations": A young man leaves the church, and comes back several years later, after achieving success in the world. Not surprisingly the man finds love in someone (who coincidentally, is also a single mother), who's not impressed by his celebrity status. And, as in several movies, the woman has a change of heart. Both characters of Boris Kodjoe and Cuba Gooding Jr., are involved in the church's music ministry, and run into the conflict of bringing in secular ideals. The only difference between the two movies being one of the main characters indicated a need for a complete life change. However, this point didn't become clear until ninety minutes later.My biggest criticism: The ending needed more work. The series of scenes towards the end were hard to follow. It was as if the director was avoiding the 2 hour mark, and compacted all the remaining details into the last three minutes.All in all, I'd give it a six for its content. Even with the unoriginal plot line, it's still an enjoyable film.

jazzyteddy4559 I'm not going to tell you how good or bad this movie is. I'm just going to tell you how some things in this movie do not work. Let's take the really bad script which was just a horrible excuse for anything passing for creativity. This was by far the most predictable story I could have a imagine. But, oh there is a but, it does grab you in two areas. The death of the mother and the father. These are the only times. What I really did not get though from the death of the mother, is why the son was so mad at his father. It seems he didn't know his mother was sick. Heck, no one knew. We saw her healthy. So how was his father suppose to know? Why get angry at a man for doing what he always does? He didn't know she was sick and you didn't either...someone was drinking too much holy water while writing that part. That really lacked common sense by all counts.Now let's get to the dialogue...ummm...not much happening. If anything, it really wasn't that convincing. The words flowed like peanut butter through tar. The actors, though gifted, were not convincing. But that really wasn't their fault. Let's blame the writers...and I do. David and Rain are suppose to really be into each other but you really don't get that because the only dialogue that we really hear is sarcasm and frankness. So where is this longing and the love jones? Lastly, the music. There is nothing wrong with the music because it is great....BUT...(I brought up that but again) why on God's green earth would you play the actual CDs of the songs in the movie? Ummm...that was the worst idea ever. I know that someone thought that that shouldn't make a difference, but when you hear the offbeat of the CD that isn't keeping up with the clapping track...you have a problem.Nothing about this movie was original. I'm sorry but this was a Lifetime movie at best and should have never been sent to the theaters. And saying that is saying a lot. But you will enjoy it for the great music, the actors, and Gospel music icons. Nothing else actually matters in this movie.

hsolo9 Hey i think "The Gospel" movie was awesome because i learned a lot from it you know I'm a Christian girl and I was so touched by this movie because i know that sometimes as a Christian you just want to do things your own way but we realism that we can't do anything without Jesus, without accepting Jesus in our lives so i was really touched by this movie and hopefully there will be another one coming out soon. This movie was like the movie "Fighting Temptation" but this movie had a lot of awesome songs man the way the actors were singing it was awesome. I thank you all for making this movie because it shows in the end that life without Jesus is no life at all. So yeah thanks for making this movie it was a real inspiration to me. I encourage people to buy this movie its awesome!