Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Johan Dondokambey The movie covered just about all the problems that are the highest potential cause of a teen suicide, those which are present in every country and culture. And the story kind of rightly put it at the right weight emphasis on each subject; like that peer pressure causes more stress than dysfunctional family or unplanned pregnancy, because peer pressure happens to all teens, no matter what demography they belong to. The subjects are weaved in quite nicely, utilizing the duration of the movie. Although I must say that the flow of the story feels kind of strange because we see Jake going in and out of problems in such a fast pace. The acting is definitely not the strong part of this movie. All the actors are merely doing enough to have the story delivered, yet there's less effort in conveying out the emotions that should be depicted.

skilletfanatic17 I absolutely loved this movie. A friend of mine told me constantly to watch it, and at first i was hesitant to because i've seen Christian movies before and they all tend to have crappy acting, thin storyline, cliché lines, and just be overall cheesy. But after like the 20th time of her telling me i said OK and i watched. Afterwards i immediately thanked her because this movie is incredible. It's not about religion, it's not about coming to Christ, it's not about changing your life or anything like that, but it's about what a Christians true mission in life should be, which is saving lives and impacting the world around you. Jake didn't just become some Christian and then sit at home reading his bible and then go sit at church every Sunday, he acted to make a difference on the lives of the people around him. he did everything he could to let the hurt kids know that he saw them, they weren't alone, and someone would miss them if they took there life. The acting, the drama, the humor, the message, all excellent in this movie.

tareli3 Aside from the connection to the church, this movie was Extremely Well Written. I would recommend this for any person, let alone teenager. It was inspiring and confirmed my passion for helping others. Although I would have liked it even better if the script was non-denominational, I can appreciate that it was (mostly) true to life, and most of the characters, were pretty good actors (Jake, Chris, Johnny, Roger, etc...) I also really liked that it had a couple twists to the story and that it was not entirely attached to just one main theme, such as the idea of suicide. It had other issues teenagers go through. I am wondering how realistic the party scenes were because they seemed more like college parties than high school, but that's usually how movies tend to go. Otherwise, the relationships between Jake and his girlfriend, parents, friends, were solid.

wheatonchelsey This is a awesome movie for any age. The story is very good and something we should all remember not to do. In the movie you will realize that if you let people join your group and be nice, it can save a lot. In the movie there is Jake's friend Roger who killed himself because he felt like no one was there with him. Jake feels that this could have been prevented if he hadn't of ditched Roger for a girl in fresh-man year. After the death of Roger, Jake decided something must be done about teen suicidal. Another guy at his school is being bullied and doesn't seem to be happy. Jake says that he needs to do something. The guy was thrilled to have Jake Taylor a senior basketball star that sits with all the cool kids come and see if he wants to sit with him. Those two started to hang out and get to know each other. Jake asked him if he ever wanted to kill himself. He said no. Jake and this girl Amy start having an affair with each other and being each others dates to the parties. Jake gets Amy pregnant and they both decide to give the baby away for adoption but they will not get an abortion. Later on, after the baby is born Jake moves and when he is about to leave the guy came over and gave him a note. It read: Dear Jake, when you asked me if i ever wanted to kill myself, i said no but until you came along i was thinking about it. You saved my life. Thank you. It was a sad but amazing movie and it shows that if you care for someone stuff will change.