PROS
+ Beautiful display of a strong faith in the midst of the final struggle. This is how faith should look alike, to even be able to laugh and to motivate others when things become dark but Heaven gets much closer.
+ Excellent actors.
CONS
+ Beautiful display of a strong faith in the midst of the final struggle. This is how faith should look alike, to even be able to laugh and to motivate others when things become dark but Heaven gets much closer.
+ Excellent actors.
CONS
- The movie endorses the practice of making wishes on a shooting star. Such a practice should never be displayed in a Christian movie.
- Although the main character shows a strong faith, the movie has overall a strong potential to create doubts in believers. If the atheist in the movie would have been converted, the essence of the movie would be that THEOS had a purpose in Michael's death. This would have been a powerful testimony. But more than calling the atheist a friend and being a wonderful testimony for him, did sadly not happen.
- The movie includes a highly problematic scene, where Michael's brother is about to cut his wrist with a glass splitter.
- To compare eternity with a pig mobile might be funny in that scene, but it is rather problematic and the producers could have chosen any other analogy, especially given the fact that the pig mobile did not exist in that form and that the producers added the slogan and the ears in order to increase the profit of the movie.
- While the couple had been 13-15 years old when they met, the movie twists that and shows them having met around the age of 18. In reality they knew each other ~7 years when Michael died, but the movie rather suggests a couple of months.
- Furthermore, Michael is shown to have died the day after the wedding night, but in reality he died only 6 weeks later. It is spiritually irresponsible to mix a wedding celebration with death.