Yippee! Yesterday we went to see our second
"conservative" movie this week! Only this time it could not be
labeled as a homeschool social study so us older kids had to pay :0/, and this
time we stayed outside the theater room while the previews were playing :0). I
was very excited entering the theater to see this movie but left the place two
hours later feeling a tad disappointed. I expected a rousing message through
this film that would call all true Americans to take a stand for their faith,
families, and freedoms.... this movie fell considerably below my expectations.
Here is the synopsis
for the Last Ounce of Courage:
A grieving father is
inspired by his grandson to take a stand for faith and freedom against a tide
of apathy and vanishing liberty. Alongside fellow citizens of courage, faith,
and integrity, he is a champion for the cherished principles we the people hold
dear.
A rousing synopsis is it not? One would guess that this
movie would be awesome. You would expect this champion to call his fellow
citizens around him to repent and fall on their knees before the Lord, and to
take a stance on all the big political and social issues like Homosexuality,
abortion, the removing of Christ from Christmas, and schools banning prayer...
stuff like that. Well did the champion, or rather the small band of champions,
do these things? Well, kinda. The whole movie was basically centered on putting
Christ back in Christmas, a just cause to be sure, but what about the other
issues of homosexuality and abortion? Not one single mention to either issue.
What about boldly proclaiming the name of Christ? Yes, the champion in the
movie did this several times during news interviews and later raised a cross
with "Jesus saves" on it! But he never really shared his faith on a
personal level with others. Also there were several rather corny elements to
this movie that really tampered with the message and made it almost like a
"feel-good" type of movie. Probably the corniest part being about an
old guy who we see pop up several times during the movie. In one of the scenes
this guy helps the main character when he is in jail by giving him a radio to
listen to a Christmas play in which the main character's grandson gives a
touching speech. The only hitch to this is that the play was not on the radio,
the old guy disappears before the main character can thank him, and when the
main character asks the jailer who the old guy in the cell next to him was the
jailer replies, "there never was a man in that cell." Later we see
this same old man wave to the main character before with a glow he vanishes.
On a lesser note do not expect to get awed by the actors or
quality of this movie. The actors do their jobs well, but the cinematography is
definitely a step below the big company movies. In the end I think we need to
cut them some slack on this though. As far as I know this is the company's
first movie, so it is on the level of Flywheel, Sherwood Picture's first movie.
There is definitely room to improve.
Overall I would say this movie is 55% inspirational, 25% of
a tear-jerker (you will cry several
times), 15% corny, and 5% unprofessional.
So in the end you need to see this movie and support it.
Close your eyes tight and pay the insane amount of money to see it in theaters,
or even better buy it on the first weekend it comes out on DVD. You will be
(mostly) glad that you did.
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