Ok folks… I’m going to review this movie and I want to make it clear I don’t care about your religion. I don’t care if you get up on a Sunday, I don’t care if you let snakes bite you, I don’t care if you run naked through the woods screaming for Satan. I guess what I’m trying to say is that if your religion works for you and doesn’t harm another person, good luck, I don’t care about it, but if it works for you and makes you happy that’s all good. I care about people, I care that we all get to live as we decide, worship how our hearts lead us, and realise that religion isn’t something that can be forced on someone. If your words cannot bring me to your church then guess what a bomb isn’t going to do it. I was raised a Catholic but as soon as questionable thought came to me I never really went back. Now I’m open. I don’t have a religion other than love and peace.Â
So when we get a film that is for one religious belief and is so sugary that my diabetes leaves me in a coma I tend to get a little bit annoyed. There are parts to the story that could have led us to a story that would have knocked me out of the park. I get the feeling that the script writer had an idea for an episode of Criminal Minds and someone went, let’s have God in there instead of a resolution to the child’s murder. Then an Executive probably came in saying ‘Well we can get a lot of money from Christian groups to make this,’ and I spent two hours of my life that I shall never get back again.
Sam Worthington plays the man who loses his daughter and if you isolate his performance away from the heavy-handed religious stuff it’s very good. I liked him in a lot of films and Man on Ledge was a great film. I don’t know why he’s here. Octavia Spencer plays God, or as she is called in the movie Papa, and once again I’m scratching my head wondering why. You go from The Help and Hidden Figures to this? To THIS?
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Director:Â Stuart Hazeldine
Writers: John Fusco, Andrew Lanham, William P. Young, Destin Daniel Cretton, Wayne Jacobsen, Brad Cummings
Stars:Â Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Tim McGraw
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