It’s religious cinema time again! I want to point out that I
am not doing this because such films are generally easy targets; sitting
through God’s Not Dead 2 was anything but easy. No, I maintain that I want to
see really good religious cinema come to theatres around here. One of my
favourite films is Kevin Smith’s Dogma, something that affected me so deeply as
to completely shape my views on theology to what they are today, and I’d give
anything for someone else to be similarly affected by a recent release. The
problem is, between the preachiness, toxicity and just plain banality that
fills an awful lot of these kinds of releases, it doesn’t look hopeful. Not
that I can guess who will be influenced by what; I’m just saying that, if there
are people who sees something
positive and enlightening in something like War Room, I’ll be happy for them
from a very, very safe distance. So,
on my quest to find a Christian film that doesn’t suck on toast, I came across
this fairly recent release featuring Hayden Christensen. Well, that optimism
was nice while it lasted.
