Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Gary Murphy This movie was every bit of what I expected. I didn't expect a profound and complex story. I didn't expect great acting, but I found some very good acting. I rented the movie mainly to see how Tamyra Gray had what it takes to carry a good share of a movie - and of course to hear her sing.I think she pulled it off. Her acting skills came across quite well. I hope to see her in more mainstream films in the future. The other cast members did a good job of acting, too.The music in this film is exceptional.Although this is by no means a fantastic movie, I think it deserves more than the 2.7 rating that the IMDb members gave it.

fnwsi I worked in a church for quite some time and saw the inner workings of it. Much like anything else a church is a business, and the pastor and congregation are just people.This movie reflected what we are as humans; imperfect. It strayed from the normal Hollywood stereotypes of pretty, perfect, and life always falling into place. It showed the power of God, when we allow Him in our lives, and allow our self-pride to step aside.Powerful, strong and beautiful. And no, you don't need to be a person of color to enjoy this awesome film, as if it mattered, because I am a Caucasion woman. All you need is to enjoy music and have an open mind to real-type people in real-type of events.The best film I have seen in years.~Desiree

marbleann This was a pretty generic movie. If you like Gospel music this will set the mark. But do not look for anything but a text book prodigal son returns story to go along with the music. I probably could of wrote this review without seeing the movie because of the formula for this sort of the movie is the same the players just change. 1) Two boyhood friends2) Something catastrophic happens to make one of them go astray3) One stays home and basically becomes the either a Priest, A social Worker, a teacher or a policeman or some other pillar of the community.4) The other one either became a harden criminal, or rich and famous who has lost his way and has rejected his previous life5) Something catastrophic brings him home again, Either they are running from the cops. There's a death in the family or a little brother is out of control and is one step away from being on the Top of the FBI's Most Wanted List6) Man returns only to find his best friend is either bitter or or to good to be true. Then neighborhood is in shambles and the Prostitute or the dope fiend at the corner is his ex girlfriend who left when he ran out of town. Oh and a family member is sicker then expected. And a beloved local landmark, be it a church, a park, a movie theater or high school hangout is being threaten with closure or is in shambles7) the ending either consist of the person being captured by police in the case of the criminal, after saintly best friend turns him in. Or he decides to stay and use some of the millions he had made to thwart the beloved place from closing down. And if they do not get their ex girlfriend from turning tricks and taking dope they will fall in love with a new girl. Bitter buddy and him have mended fences. And they all live happily ever after. The End. This movie has a little bit of each of the steps I mentioned with a few variations to the template. I believe the supporting cast was very good and the music was. But the following is a Bad Actor Alert from the Emergency Broadcast System. I loved him on Soul food but Boris Kedjoe was about as convincing as the Singing Nun playing a Usher type R&B star and was equally not convincing as a Gospel singer. That scene at his mothers grave toward the end of movie rivals the bad acting of Vin Diesel. This is a actor who IMO was good and good looking in Soul Food. But something was lacking here. He even looked strangely odd to me. His Co-star Idris Elba from The Wire on the other hand was very good. I think I could watch him in about anything. I would recommend this move for people who love Gospel music. But for me because of the laziness of the script and the absolutely appalling acting from the lead the movie was barely watchable.I wanted to comment on the comments about why people dislike this movie. I liked the Ten Commandments, The Fighting Temptations, Kingdom Come etc. My dislike for this movie had nothing to do with some anti religious sentiment. My dislike with the movie is because it was just a big music video with a generic script wrapped around it. Sort of like those bad Elvis Presley movies like Girls! Girls! Girls! when in the script was just added to the his singing. Being there are so little types of these movies being made I believe a lot of people crave them and are more then willing to over look the ineptness of this movie. We should expect more and demand it.

koziol "seems to me we (the church) need to spend less time lookin good and more time actually Being good!" Forgive the demon-possessed ignoramuses who voted "1" in order to punish Jesus, for they know not what they do!... Watch it & enjoy. Beautiful message, beautiful actors & actresses... Very real! Wow!.. the Worship! Performances! "seems to me we (the church) need to spend less time lookin good and more time actually Being good!" Forgive the demon-possessed ignoramuses who voted "1" in order to punish Jesus, for they know not what they do!... Watch it & enjoy. Beautiful message, beautiful actors & actresses... Very real! Wow!.. the Worship! Performances!