Machine Gun Preacher

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R. R @RT37167286 07/29/2024 Maybe not what you want to see from your comfortable first world armchair, but an excellent depiction of the horror of child soldiers and terrorism in Africa. We who live here know what lurks beneath the surface. See more 01/03/2024 Absolutely makes no sense whether the reviewers would give us a low star. Real, humane, genuine. Best I've seen in a while. See more John H @RT18864280 05/23/2023 Tells the true story of Sam Childers, a common criminal who found God and went on to do amazing things. While liberties were taken for the movie (of course), it is extremely well done and really shows the impact one person can have. One of the (extremely) few movies that doesn't use the Hollywood template for Christians (evil and/or dumb). Very inspiring! See more Kyle M @RT77296778 01/16/2023 Not much resonates besides facing the emotionally hard-hitting fronts and feeling the tense thrills as formulaically typical in the action sequences rather additionally branching to the involved facts being more than just grave stakes. Same goes for factual awareness as the story does deliver awareness over dreadful events occurring overseas and we see how a savior progressively builds akin to the narratives between "Schindler's List" and "Hotel Rwanda" in paying respectful tribute in the blessed heroism whilst being challenged. For any attention-grabbing reason would stem from the basic storyline and Gerard Butler's reputable stardom as he usually comes with grips on values amidst moral evolution, part of the fine casting to boost the factual characterization. While some dialogue should've been thought better as uncertainty been sensed upon their momentary delivery, the film's tense, humbly respectful and hard-hitting with a nice cast performing well, proven to be a decent dramatization being successfully delivered as factual presentation that serves to broaden the acknowledgement campaigning for more awareness. (B) See more steve d @RT35616104 12/08/2022 Too religious for my taste but the story is really interesting. See more isla s @RT89656869 09/04/2022 This film is a fairly standard action film, only with a moral angle to it and I felt a bit torn about how sincere it was, or wanted to be viewed. I have nothing against the main character, played by Gerard Butler, he certainly seems to have his heart in the right place and it was, if anything, I suppose, reassuring to see someone with a chequered past care so much about the children forced to be in the middle of a violent/bloody conflict in Africa but I couldn't help but feel that somehow it still was a bit disingenuous. Of course I must mention that its based on a true story, that of Sam Childers, who was a former armed drug dealer in America and who became religious and ended up in Africa wanting to protect the kids, which is a nice story I suppose. I guess it comes down to the age old saying 'truth is stranger than fiction' but then also the saying, as noted (I beloeve) in the Bible 'No one is beyond redemption' also applies. Its an optimistic and nice message, sure enough and the film is certainly watchable - a fairly gripping watch at times and entertaining but the dichotomy between the scenes set in church with sermons being spoken and the bloody action/war/violence scenes, it felt a little uncomfortable I suppose. Thats not to say I don't give money to charity, generally at certain times of the year and after natural disasters and the like but it just felt perhaps a little uncomfortable viewing - a bit tacky somehow, even though its an important story to be told and its an important message. Butler does give a particularly good portrayal as Sam Childers, coming across as passionate about the Sudanese. Michelle Monaghan also does a good job portraying his wife, Lynn. Its a good film, an interesting story and its worth seeing but if the story doesn't appeal then, obviously, it wouldn't be for you - i.e. if you think organised religion is a complete con or if you believe that we in the west should stay out of the issues in other continents (i.e. Africa) and that sort of thing then this won't be for you but that sort of thing aside, its a good watch. A thought provoking film I'd somewhat cautiously recommend, yes. See more Read all reviews

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