Be you a heretic or a believer this is one movie you need to see, it essentially questions a lot of dogma in the Christian religion and a makes one think critically about religion in general and to really check ones belief .
The movie is an adaptation from a 2005 'this American life' episode titled 'heretics'.
We see chiwetel ejiofor starring as carton Pearson the pastor and lead character in the movie who questions his faith and makes some bold assertions which really gets him excommunicated from the church. Also starring in the movie are Martin sheen as oval roberts , also we see Danny Glover as Gilbert Pearson and finally we have condola rashad as carton Pearson conflicted wife.
Down to the acting chiwetel ejiofor is brilliant yet again which is really not a suprise because he's simply just one good actor who always immerses himself in the role he gets to play.
My issue with this movie is that overall it comes out lifeless without much conviction and belief in the message of the movie or ut rather comes out as bloodless. Scenes where the main characters each defend their opinions are just lacking fire, and it's not till the ending where we get to see the confrontation between Pearson and Reggie that Pearson's epiphany finally takes on some political dimension and the movie really kicks off but that is almost anti climatic at best.
The movie left a lot to be desired and left so much potential untapped as it really did have a lot of messages to pass across to regular viewers.
******/10
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