A truly beautiful movie with some surprising turns. Just as the Bible assigns specific roles for widows / people after a certain age, so THEOS assigned in the precise moment of Suzanne's retirement to fill her life with a new responsibility. It is indeed a story THEOS could have written, of bringing together the dots in the right moment of time and to bring about something good out of misery and evil.
PROS
+ Great plot.
+ Great acting by Suzanne, Eli and his sister, average acting of David and Jessica.
+ Beautiful display of strength of Suzanne, in the time when she felt as having lost Eli, her car and 100k.
NEUTRAL
o Great Christian story, but no true redemption. Suzanne was sadly not able to lead Eli to true repentance for his acts, to lead him in prayer confessing his sins. The judge might have forgiven him, but what about THEOS? Though the end is beautiful and we could expect from this a changed life without further crimes.
O Overall great filmography, but the camera in the first scene in the car was not stable.
CONS
- The arrest of Eli was strange. We see no sign why the cop arrested him.
- The comment that prisoners who encounter JESUS in prison and are being saved, return after their release always to their old life, is deeply ignorant, destructive and demotivating for all the workers of the Kingdom who labor in prison ministries. Nowhere in the movie is this devastating comment being corrected.
- The closing credits show highly problematic entries, such as Liberty University (Jerry Falwell and many controversies), Freemason Baptist Church (seriously???) and Holy Cross Regional Catholic School, but no denominational influence is noticed in the movie itself.
