Kevin Sorbo plays an angry atheist who takes apart religion (kind of a cross between the anti-religious side of Penn Jillette and the humorless side of James Randi) who's ruined his marriage prior to the film and spends his days drinking over the loss of one of his sons.
A popular figure, his life is changed when he is in a car accident and sees his dead son in a near-death experience that will change his life.
The film has good intentions and efforts were made to make it a good film, but it falls flat in several regards. Examples: everything feels rushed (especially that conversation between Sorbo and the pastor); the accident is generic and unseen, loosing some of the impact of the event; too much fuzzy to clear camera work; mediocre acting abounds from damn near everybody (the oldest son is especially bad); the terrible ear-terrorizing "hip" religious songs are very distracting (especially when you open the film that way!); some of the writing is generic and could have come from almost any feel-good movie; the score, by Marc Vanocur, is generic and completely unremarkable -- it was just there and did nothing to elevate things and if there was a theme, I surely didn't hear it (it's also interchangeable music that could have come from almost anything -- a spiritual drama, a procedural modern cop show, etc.).
I wanted to like it more than this, but the film just needs work. It needs better writing, better acting, a better score, and probably to be thirty minutes longer to flesh some stuff out better.
Is it a waste of your time? No. But don't expect the world from this or you shall be disappointed.
Oh, and what the heck -- you can't even shave for your wedding?
A popular figure, his life is changed when he is in a car accident and sees his dead son in a near-death experience that will change his life.
The film has good intentions and efforts were made to make it a good film, but it falls flat in several regards. Examples: everything feels rushed (especially that conversation between Sorbo and the pastor); the accident is generic and unseen, loosing some of the impact of the event; too much fuzzy to clear camera work; mediocre acting abounds from damn near everybody (the oldest son is especially bad); the terrible ear-terrorizing "hip" religious songs are very distracting (especially when you open the film that way!); some of the writing is generic and could have come from almost any feel-good movie; the score, by Marc Vanocur, is generic and completely unremarkable -- it was just there and did nothing to elevate things and if there was a theme, I surely didn't hear it (it's also interchangeable music that could have come from almost anything -- a spiritual drama, a procedural modern cop show, etc.).
I wanted to like it more than this, but the film just needs work. It needs better writing, better acting, a better score, and probably to be thirty minutes longer to flesh some stuff out better.
Is it a waste of your time? No. But don't expect the world from this or you shall be disappointed.
Oh, and what the heck -- you can't even shave for your wedding?