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3/10
I'm not a sinner
nogodnomasters23 July 2017
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This is one of those films which was like watching a train wreak, horrible, but I couldn't turn away.

The film opens with a killing and jumps about 25 years later with Bill Horton (Keith Collins) as our Bible quoting, doing God's work, cookie baking killer in Barefoot Beach (Point Pleasant Beach) , New Jersey. Old school Detective John Vance (Doug Bollinger) is teamed up with rookie Detective Edward Legros (Michael Billy) to solve the case while our killer goes to a psychologist (Samantha Artese). His visits supply us with his background.

We have seen self righteous killers before, and they are rarely done good since Kevin Spacey in "Seven." Doug Bollinger had all the best lines with references to the over abundant 70's TV cop shows. However, he and none of the actors for that matter, were convincing in their roles, some of which may be due to the script.

The ending had a twist I really wasn't expecting because I didn't care enough to look for it.

Winner of the Atlantic City Cinefest 2015 best horror feature and Doug Bollinger as best actor in a horror feature, so what do I know.

Guide: F-word. Nudity (Serena Pallottini)
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2/10
How did this get a rating of 7 total? It's terrible.
lilith136-30-63921522 March 2018
Ok, I don't like to judge but bad acting is just...bad acting. The plot is ok, but everything else is just what? It's like watching a panto, when people hit each other they just play pretend...and it is obvious. Avoid, unless you just want something in the background for some noise.
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2/10
Typical indie film
Leofwine_draca4 April 2018
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THE EVANGELIST is a typical serial killer thriller made on an indie budget. It's cheap and badly staged, suffering from the usual slow-paced narrative, dark photography, and poor attempts at moodiness on the part of the director. The characters are never more than basic one-dimensional figures. Imagine a police procedural with a few religious touches and you'll be there.
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1/10
For movies like this, you need negative stars
saramgia31 January 2018
"The Evangelist" is unoriginal; badly written, directed, acted, and produced. I just don't understand why amazon inflicts some of these movies on us.
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1/10
Wow...bad
africe16 July 2019
Okay, I know I've said this before but these guys are the worst actors I've ever seen. And I'm only a few minutes in. Stolen characters from numerous other films. Retiring detective? Yeah! We've seen this eh? Back to acting school fellas. The lead male character is horrible!!!
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1/10
Only in Atlantic city could this film win a positive award
vmalast25 March 2019
I thought this was a comedic parody of a few serial killer movies put together. I was wrong. This film was shooting for horror/thriller, it missed on both counts. Cheesy dialogue, cheesy acting, you're definitely going to need a great deal of alcohol to was away the taste of this "film".
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Very Strange Movie
bocklm24 May 2018
I love Amazon but have to wonder what is the quality of their AI program, How this ever came up as a suggestion in Facebook is worry some.

"Actors, Directors and Technicians" created this?

This could only be some sort of a comic farce - BADLY DONE
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