Island of Grace (2009) User Reviews

Propaganda film

[morganseer · 4/10 · 30 April 2017]

A young woman has a choice of two men after their plane crashes on a deserted island. The atheist is handsome, superficial, selfish and incompetent, the Christian is plain, judgmental, but all-knowing and all-sacrificing. Which one will win the girl?

Mediocre film with self-conscious acting, a poor script, and an obvious moral. It may appeal to Christians, who may watch it free on the Tubitv app, at least in the near future. The rest of the world may want to give this plodder a skip.

A little longer maybe, who knows

[bkoganbing · 3/10 · 2 July 2017]

I guess that Matthew Davis, Samuel Potts, and Jaycee Lynn were not longer stranded on that Indonesian island any longer than they were. I have a feeling certain passions and hormones would have started kicking in. It certainly did with the Bounty survivors and the Tahitians who went with them to Pitcairn Island.

This same premise two men and a woman stranded on an island was the basis for the classic film The Little Hut with Ava Gardner and her two men Stewart Granger and David Niven. But then none of them were born again Christians.

Potts is a new convert, Lynn is a long standing believer and Davis is the office hunk. All three on a trip to Jakarta in a private plane survive and make it to an uninhabited island. After that it's a struggle to both maintain belief systems and get off the island.

It's a Christian film with Christian parameters in place. I have a feeling had this been done secularly it would look a lot more like The Little Hut.

Believe me none of the players comes close to those three stars.

Only the acting is worse than the writing.

[roxyremix-365-532870 · 1/10 · 17 January 2022]

Calling this a low budget Lost would be an insult to Lost. One of the actors comes across like he's never acted a day in his life (striped polo), the other two aren't much better. Blech.

Well worth watching

[jewelch · 7/10 · 21 March 2021]

Sometimes we can't see what people are really like or make fun of those who are different. We make changes to our lives so we can fit in. Megan is one of those people, ignoring the faith and beliefs she once practiced and now she is one of the club-hopping office girls, too busy for church or even reading her Bible. Mark is a self centered business man who thinks he is too busy for religion. Chris is the hard working "tech guy" who recently became a Christian and likes Megan. Now the three are in an unlikely place that will reveal a great deal about each one of their inner selves.

"Island of Grace" is a compelling story about true survival. Today some Christians get swept into the world around them and forget the true meaning of their life. This is a story about how our Christian life does not have to change so we can "fit in". But rather that it is important to live our lives to the fullest in Him and not worry about the way others in the world around us think. James Welch Henderson, Arkansas 3/21/2021

Appalling Movie

[blobby-13041 · 1/10 · 15 March 2020]

This movie horrified me and my cousins. Mark was an intelligent, kind, sensitive, hardworking person. Meanwhile, Chris was a whiny, immature, jealous, and judgmental person who made Megan feel bad about herself and her personal decisions. By making Megan end up with Chris, Hallmark taught young people everywhere to choose people who make them feel judged and unworthy. A simillar ending that would've sent a good message is Megan ending up with Mark. By turning Mark evil, the writers taught young children that people can't change and richer, better-looking, more popular people are villains just because thay make you feel insecure. This was painful to watch because as we were watching, we all thought Mark was a wonderful person and he and Megan would've been happy together. But we slowly realized that this was not going to happen, but like a slow motion car crash we couldn't stop watching. We watched until Mark's inspiring character was ruined and we painfully cringed as she inevitably kissed Chris at the end. We all go to Hallmark for sweet love movies that take our mind off our problems, not so they can create more. But I, Mark Blobby, am not a person who simply complains about a problem. I fix it. So my proposal to HallMARK is that they make a sequel, for Marks everywhere. In a sequel we should find out that Chris threatened to hurt Megan if Mark didn't break up with her. Mark, being his wonderful self, was forced to do it. But in the sequel he worries about Megan and goes on a long journey to find her and save her. Then children would learn how toxic people like Chris are, and how selfless and kind people like Mark are.

Predictable

[moviereviewer99 · 8/10 · 13 February 2020]

Predictable plot line, but I enjoyed it.

Then again, I like Hallmark/Hallmarkish movies that are faith based.

It's a No for me

[iheart_princeliam · 3/10 · 22 January 2022]

I thought this movie would of been better, didn't seem like they were stranded on an island at all. The second time the girl got on a plane right after the plane crash there was no hesitation about jumping on a plane again lol.