Overall, I liked this movie.
The acting was little more than adequate. This was what I call a "Religious Propaganda" movie, which is evidenced by the production and distribution companies. Basically, the movie had a good plot and theme to it, but the problem with religious propaganda directors is that it seems as if they try to make every single scene in the movie to be something powerful. Unfortunately, the result of that is a disjointed movie with scenes that don't mesh well together.
It was no different with this movie. While, overall, it was a great movie, the direction was terrible and it partially came off like having "Gods Word" shoved down your throat. A couple of the most powerful scenes in the movie were diluted by following scenes that kept bringing it up as if to say, "Did you get the point?".... The result of that is that the movie (and those scenes) lost their potency because of constant reiteration.
A great movie will let the audience come to their own conclusions, but this movie like so many other religious propaganda movies didn't allow that to happen, instead, the directors made a forced point in telling us what we should have seen and/or felt. One example of this is at the end of the movie when the Jimmy Easton says, "This wasn't about baseball, was it?" and his Uncle's reply was, "No, no it wasn't."
This movie is worth the watch. There is a great message in the movie, but you sort of have no choice in the matter... you'll see the message because they beat you over the head with it.
The acting was little more than adequate. This was what I call a "Religious Propaganda" movie, which is evidenced by the production and distribution companies. Basically, the movie had a good plot and theme to it, but the problem with religious propaganda directors is that it seems as if they try to make every single scene in the movie to be something powerful. Unfortunately, the result of that is a disjointed movie with scenes that don't mesh well together.
It was no different with this movie. While, overall, it was a great movie, the direction was terrible and it partially came off like having "Gods Word" shoved down your throat. A couple of the most powerful scenes in the movie were diluted by following scenes that kept bringing it up as if to say, "Did you get the point?".... The result of that is that the movie (and those scenes) lost their potency because of constant reiteration.
A great movie will let the audience come to their own conclusions, but this movie like so many other religious propaganda movies didn't allow that to happen, instead, the directors made a forced point in telling us what we should have seen and/or felt. One example of this is at the end of the movie when the Jimmy Easton says, "This wasn't about baseball, was it?" and his Uncle's reply was, "No, no it wasn't."
This movie is worth the watch. There is a great message in the movie, but you sort of have no choice in the matter... you'll see the message because they beat you over the head with it.