Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

cinephile-27690 When I was a kid, I saw this numerous times, but oddly no other Kendrick Brothers movie. No matter, as a child, we saw this as a family countless times. That lagged after my Dad passed away, but I bought it-now that I live with my Grandma, and she enjoyed it to. My nostalgia for this movie may make this review biased. I don't care. This is a great movie for the family! This ranks 3rd for my favorites-after Courageous and Fireproof. Now what else can I say about it? I mentioned in my Courageous review that the Kendrick's are good at humor. It works here too. It's heart and message is great too. Few movies have made me feel good. I am 19 and despite seeing this numerous times it still inspires me-and it came out when I was 8! If need inspiration-this is a movie to check out.

marsmitchell79 One of those movies that would have been better if it wasn't as if it were done by a churchgoing skinhead. Almost every minority is in some kind of submissive role whether that's getting brutally tackled, being defeated by a white quarterback(or on the opposing team), being shown in background or in practice drills(none good enough to start), being a nearly all-white cast(1 affirmative action black actor), etc. It seemed blatant! Christianity is about converting whites, blacks, Middle Eastern, Eastern, European, Hispanic, Indians, etc. to Christianity. It's one thing to exclude them, but to go that extra mile to make them submissive is yet another. Also, it's about not doing things that are unnecessarily offensive to weaker individuals(not converts or not on your level yet). I think Paul of the bible said that. Blacks that aren't Uncle Toms or Aunt Theresas will likely be offended by this movie! Isn't a Christian trying to win their soul, too?Movie had a great message, though. God can help you through anything, if you trust him. Nothing's impossible for God! Georgia High school football coach Grant Taylor and his wife suffer greatly early on through losing football, financial difficulty, being fired, and infertility, but face it together as Christians. With urging of a Christian, he becomes more proactive with his Christian faith. His approach starts a movement within the players and the school. As Grant becomes more Christianly proactive, he gets blessing after blessing from God. It seems like everything either gets a good bit better or becomes outstandingly better. So good are these things that he is tearfully happy with almost every one! It seems when he has gotten giddy with one here comes another! Side stories: Coach light-heartedness/drama with coaches, Football player and his rich dad, a Backup kicker and his dad, Losing, the winning and playoffs, infertility, prayer, Christian talk. I don't want to spoil the movie, but it has a good bit of twists and drama.

Spazimoto A friend of ours gave us this movie to watch. I wasn't sure what I was in for, but decided to give it a whirl.PROS: -This movie has a nice, positive message about maintaining one's faith during times of trouble.-The action and football sequences were performed decently.-The Black assistant coach was a pretty decent actor.-A great movie to show to other church-goers (Thus my summary title).CONS:-The acting is very amateur, and rather painful to watch at times. -The Christian utopia at a public high school is a nice sentiment, and maybe allowed/encouraged in Georgia, but is unrealistic in many other places outside of the bible belt.-The cameo of Coach Mark Richt from University of Georgia is kind of an awkward scene. Unless you're from GA or follow college football, you will never really learn who he is.-The plot is fairly predictable.-The first 5 minutes of the movie consists of 1,505,768 opening logos for production & distribution companies who worked on this piece. If you understand that this movie was made by and starred volunteers, and not professionals, you may enjoy it. It's a great film to show other believers, because of its feel-good message.To everyone else, this movie is rather corny, and makes an After-school special look like an Oscar-winning film.If you want to show non-believers Christ-centered media, I'd steer clear of this selection. Steve Taylor's, "The Second Chance" may be a better avenue to reach those without Jesus in their lives.

Kelsey Carlisle Facing The Giants Review The movie, Facing the Giants, is such an impacting movie and is different from many other movies today because of its family friendly appeal. Hannah Goodwyn reported that this movie was designed and directed by a church in Albany, Georgia called Sherwood Baptist Church. Alex and Stephen Kendrick, associate pastors of the church, created this movie with the ambition to spread the love of Christ with the message and positive effect of putting faith in Jesus Christ in every life situation. In fact, the actors in the movie were members of the church, including Alex who played the main character as the head football coach. Although this movie is directed towards football players or people who enjoy football, the message that it conveys can be for anyone because of the various messages that it portrays. Although there are many parts of the movie that display an impacting message, one of the most meaningful scenes that I believe changed the outcome of the rest of the movie was the death crawl scene. Leading up to this scene, the coach for the Eagles, Grant Taylor and his wife Brooke, had been struggling financially and were having complications and started fertility treatments to have a baby. Added onto this, for the past six years, his football team had not won hardly any games and everyone wanted him replaced. With all of the difficult circumstances occurring in his life, Grant did not know what to do and wanted to give up on everything. One night, a man met him at the school and read scripture to him. Grant began seeking God's guidance in his life and decided to change the focus of his football team. The next day at practice, Brock Kelley, the captain of the team, was downing the team so Coach Grant challenges him to do the death crawl blindfolded to the fifty yard line with one of his teammates on his back. As Brock is crawling across the field, he starts to get tired and wants to give up. Coach Grant then starts encouraging him and screaming "don't give up" over and over. When he takes the blindfold off, Brock realizes that he is in the opposing end zone. After exceeding to one hundred yards, Brock is amazed at what he accomplished and decides to step up and become a leader on the team. The team began to focus on Christ and trust in Him as they finished the season by giving their very best no matter what the outcome of the game was. The Eagles finished the season undefeated and won the State Championship, defeating the Giants, for the first time ever. Facing the Giants is one of the most inspirational movies I have ever seen and presents many life lessons. However, there are some drawbacks to every movie. For example, professionals did not direct Facing the Giants. Hannah Goodywn says that this was a drawback to the resources that could have inputted if experts would have made it, such as professional actors or videographers. However, this movie was not meant to be intrigue the audience because of the special effects or who the actors were at all, rather for the viewers to grasp the importance of faith in Christ. Overall, Facing the Giants has a simple plot that does not need any enhancers to better convey its purpose. Another drawback that would have affected the success of the movie would be if the ending of the movie were changed. For example, after Coach Taylor's faith impacted the team in the death crawl scene, everything seemed to fall into place with the Eagles winning and Brooke becoming pregnant. If the movie did not happen this way, the message it was trying to convey would not be supported effectively. Thus, the ending of the movie was the result of the challenge that Coach Grant made which lead to the outcome of the game. This movie is a powerful, true story, and was made for the purpose of showing viewers that everyone faces adversity in life in various ways. As Hannah states in her review, audiences will see a real life testimony of God's power and mercy in Facing the Giants. There are many life lessons to grasp from this movie and the scene that captured them the best was when Brock did the death crawl on the field. This scene was effective in presenting the turning point of the movie from not believing in the team, to having faith to overcome the fear of loosing. The death crawl was not only put in the movie to teach football players to exceed the target or goal at hand, but also as an encouragement to everyone else to give the utmost effort when facing adversity in life and never give up. Michael Lee says in his opinion of this scene that we as humans make limits as to how far we want to go, but the truth is that we should not have any limits and our minimum effort should not be our maximum effort in life. The target audience may be to football teams, but anyone who watches it can take something away from this movie, which makes it even more successful. The overall theme in the movie is that everyone faces giants in life, but it's by the power of Jesus Christ that we can conquer the giants by trusting in Him. Even though a church created Facing the Giants, it did not affect the overall success of the movie. I strongly suggest everyone to watch it because it is more than a movie, its an inspiration and encouragement on how to face life.