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Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "...starts off well enough with agreeable characters, passable dialogue, and the genial tone of an episode of '7th Heaven,' but eventually devolves into over-the-top drama and a suffocating heavy-handedness.... for all intents and purposes the theater seats might as well be pews." (Read the full review...) 199 words, 10/07/11
Paul Brunick, New York Times: WEAK "Overplotted and understructured... a slog to get through at 130 minutes. Though the scenes of light comedy are mildly amusing, and the action set pieces are competently directed, they feel tacked on to the main storyline..." (Read the full review...) 236 words, 10/03/11 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "...a particularly clunky, tunnel-visioned vehicle whose overbearing, overlong script nearly smothers the movie's quibble-free message: Fathers must be responsible." (Read the full review...) 418 words, 10/03/11 Nick Schager, Village Voice: POOR "Earnest, corny and borderline creepy... endlessly expounds on the importance of God in men's lives but fails to answer the more pressing question of why religious sagas such as this treat subtlety as a sin." (Read the full review...) 202 words, 10/05/11
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: WEAK (cg) "...a cut and many, many edits above [writer Stephen Kendrick and writer/director/actor Alex Kendrick's first faith-based drama] 'Fireproof'... But it also has signs of [a] sophomore jinx.... [it's] often a soapy melodrama..." (Read the full review...) 583 words, 09/30/11 James Ward, Arizona Republic: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Its central point -- how fathers should be kind, responsible and loving to their families, all the while making sure everyone lives by biblical principles -- is admirable. But at well over two hours, the film suffers from a frequently hectoring and (worse) plodding quality." (Read the full review...) 436 words, 09/30/11 Tom Russo, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "...a movie with a good-hearted aim... But it's also a movie brought to you by Affirm Films, Sony Pictures' religious-demographic division, meaning that a certain amount of the preaching is literal. It's a blunt approach..." (Read the full review...) 356 words, 10/03/11
Nick Schager, Village Voice: POOR "Earnest, corny and borderline creepy... endlessly expounds on the importance of God in men's lives but fails to answer the more pressing question of why religious sagas such as this treat subtlety as a sin." (Read the full review...) 202 words, 10/05/11 Nathan Rabin, AV Club: WEAK (cg) "...literally preaches to the converted, delivering ham-fisted messages of responsibility... deifies fatherhood and fathers when it would be better off treating its central striver like a flawed human being instead of a paper saint." (Read the full review...) 406 words, 09/28/11 Ed Gonzalez, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...the film is a lesson plan for God's wayward sheep. First it regurgitates facts about the links between violence and the father's absence from the home, then proceeds to show us how its [protagonists] proceed to better themselves as fathers so that their children won't become like the blacks whose furrowed brows are the only interest the filmmakers show in their wasted lives." (Read the full review...) 442 words, 09/30/11
Paul Brunick, New York Times: WEAK "Overplotted and understructured... a slog to get through at 130 minutes. Though the scenes of light comedy are mildly amusing, and the action set pieces are competently directed, they feel tacked on to the main storyline..." (Read the full review...) 236 words, 10/03/11 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "...a particularly clunky, tunnel-visioned vehicle whose overbearing, overlong script nearly smothers the movie's quibble-free message: Fathers must be responsible." (Read the full review...) 418 words, 10/03/11
Joe Leydon, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...convincingly sincere but entirely too long-winded.... pic as a whole would have benefited from judicious trimming down from its 129-minute length.... director [Alex] Kendrick handles a few action setpieces with impressive dexterity... performances across the board are credible and creditable." (Read the full review...) 439 words, 10/01/11 Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: FAIR "The characters are complex and well-drawn, struggling with various personal issues that test their faith and character in believable ways. But the episodic and frequently melodramatic storyline contains enough incidents and subplots to fill an entire television season." (Read the full review...) 307 words, 09/30/11 Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "...a particularly clunky, tunnel-visioned vehicle whose overbearing, overlong script nearly smothers the movie's quibble-free message: Fathers must be responsible." (Read the full review...) 418 words, 10/03/11 Paul Brunick, New York Times: WEAK "Overplotted and understructured... a slog to get through at 130 minutes. Though the scenes of light comedy are mildly amusing, and the action set pieces are competently directed, they feel tacked on to the main storyline..." (Read the full review...) 236 words, 10/03/11
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