Courageous (2011)

And let the rant begin. As I have said many times, I am not a fan of inspirational films. And also as I have said twice, thrice, quadrice (?) times, I really am not a fan of religious films. Don’t get me wrong, I am a Christian, but nearly all religious films are messages and not movies. And the biggest culprit of this is Sherwood Pictures, a terrible religious film company who churns out another heap of cat excrement every few years (by using the fancy word ‘excrement’, I have already written stuff better in this review than in this entire movie, in all modesty). My school makes me sit through clips of Facing the Giants a couple times every year, and people cheer. THEY CHEER! I have never been more disappointed in my classmates, especially when they’re the same classmates who have bashed The Tree of Life like it was Something Borrowed. But, the fourth film by these terrible people is Courageous, a movie about cops who are also fathers. They get sad when they can’t be the same fathers on TV, because they have to be normal people and can’t spend every day with their bratty kids. I have the same problem with this like I do with I Don’t Know How She Does It-they treat these people who aren’t the perfect family like they are hindered and basically unable to do this and poor them-but they’re just people, so you all need to suck it up, and take your terrible movies with you when you do. Now, I could end the review here, but I need to go into more detail of how much I hate this. The direction is terrible, the editing is atrocious, the writing is absolutely horrid, the acting is on par with Jake Lloyd in The Phantom Menace, and that’s saying something. Now Haylee-this last part is for you. There are two things done right in this movie-there is one funny scene and one mildly interesting cop shooting. But the movie drags on, it’s terrible made, and it is a movie made by people who don’t watch movies, don’t like movies, and quite frankly, don’t make movies, because this isn’t a movie. You want a good religious movie-watch The Last Temptation of Christ. But you can’t, because it portrays Jesus as impure, so you couldn’t watch that, you have to take this force-fed message that is built on no principle of filmmaking what-so-ever. Let the hate begin.
2.5/10