I have no doubt that it will touch a lot of hearts and lives, and pray with my wife that God will use the movie broadly. The discipleship that makes a difference is also gruelling and far from simple. I doubt anyone will lodge that accusation here. One feels overkill, and folks have accused the movie of Osteenism. In Facing the Giants, they win, he gets a truck, his wife gets a baby, Lassie comes home, all his hair grows back, Reagan returns for a third term. There's a little surprise on top of the ending that's nice. Like Facing the Giants, the movie has a happy ending - almost too happy. It's a near thing, and her own heart changes just in the nick of time. She's all but in the arms of another man. Caleb's motivations change, as do his efforts.īut his wife doesn't. It's a very natural-feeling, effectively-done sequence, and it's pivotal to the plot. It doesn't "work." His dad urges him to stick with it, and he does.Īt a critical juncture Dad drives out and shares the Gospel with Caleb. Caleb, though not a Christian, goes along.Īt first, his efforts are genuine but minimal and half-hearted. He challenges Caleb to give it forty days, each day doing something that his dad will explain to him in a book, as he goes along. Both spouses are in the process of putting their arms around the concept of divorce, and actually seeing it as a preferable solution.īut Caleb's dad is a Christian who says he and his wife have worked through major issues in their marriage. The marriage isn't troubled it's about over. SpoilerySome Christian stories have differed little from Chick tracts, with flat characters and cartoonish situations.
Find where this is playing hear you, take your wife or friend(s), and see it. Look, if you complain about language, violence, and other nastiness in movies, put your bucks where your mouth is. If that's a reservation, then it's the only one I have in heartily recommending it. I think the movie would be lost on young children, but anyone over about 12 will benefit from something in Fireproof. One in particular interweaves each spouse talking to friends that is so deftly-handled and so funny, I think it'd make a mannequin laugh. There actually are several sequences that are an absolute panic. The humor was fresh and crackling, as many of the emotions were raw and moving. They just stood out because of the overall quality of the main performances.Īs a rule, movies have to work pretty hard to make my wife laugh, and she was rolling, as was I. Only two parts gave me the feeling that the beloved church secretary had been given a role because everyone adores her - and they weren't all that bad.
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And it has the Gospel, and the Word of God.Īs a movie, the production values are decent, and the acting is professional and heartfelt. What it doesn't have is foul language, gratuitous violence, blasphemy, sex.
What Fireproof does have is drama, suspense, action, a lot of laughs, emotional resonance, tension, and resolution. Everyone "feels" real, and dialogue matches with performance to populate the movie with believable, three-dimensional characters.
Coworkers at the fire station and the hospital are brought in and developed in living color, often to genuinely hilarious effect. Packer with a Southern accent somehow Caleb and Catherine didn't pick up their parents' accents) as well as Catherine's. The movie looks over both of their shoulders, seeing how they deal (or don't deal) with the issues threatening to end their union.Īs the story moves on, we meet Caleb's parents (- his dad physically resembles J. We meet fireman Caleb Holt, whose marriage to Catherine is on the rocks. Longer review: this is from the people who brought us Facing the Giants. Last night, my dear wife and I saw the movie Fireproof, starring Kirk Cameron and a lot of people I didn't recognize.