This is the movie made by a church in Georgia that managed to make some decent profit in the theaters. Using mostly local actors (the writer also stars and directs), this is the story of a small Christian high school football coach, struggling to honor God while still aiming for the state championship. As I said, the acting wasn’t the best in the world (although I will say that for being *non-actors* (the real football coach’s wife plays the football coach’s wife!) they are decent enough). And I found it distracting that writer/director/actor Alex Kendrick looked like he could be Ron “Office Space” Livingston’s older brother. And the writing was so predictable and earnest that I felt like I should be drinking a glass of wine with all that cheese.
However. I still absolutely loved this movie. I can’t help it. I’m a sucker for mediocrity, I guess. But it had a very inspirational story to tell (albeit fictional) and is a perfect family movie. No bad language, no violence, no sexual content…you can watch this with grandchild and grandparent alike. It will definitely be added to our DVD collection at some point in the future.
4 death crawls out of five (I have to deduct the score based on the acting and over-the-top screenplay despite loving the movie).