His Only Son

I'm baffled at the high reviews. Angie Studios is asking for honesty so here goes. Confidence was high going in because Angel Studios was behind this film. Their work a low budget on The Chosen has been outstanding.

As soon as the first scene opened and we see a really bad wig we knew we were in for a disappointment. The acting, dialogue, and perspective were a throwback to why Christian films never reached The Passion kind of success and now The Chosen's kind of success. We see between these two budget doesn't matter. Quality of reality matters.

I can look past bad wigs when the artistic license to fill out a biblical account is riveting. This was too somber from the opening scene. The only smile or element of expressed joy in living God was at Isaac's birth. The theme of obedience to God being that of a slave to a mysterious master was overwhelmingly daunting. It didn't stir a passion in us to want to know this God. Sarah's negative demeanor toward God n her husband became exasperating. It would have been better to see Sarah enjoy God with points momentary days of disappointment rather than her entire married life being depressing.

The character relationships were one dimensional. My husband and I discussed why couldn't the relationship between Abraham n God been one of warm faith and desire? Where God was inviting Abraham to know through experience his own Father's towards the loss of His own Son instead of a dry obedience? Like He did with Hosea. Why couldn't we see Isaac and Abraham enjoying each other as he was growing up and Abraham was teaching him the ways of faith, the way of faith that rewarded him with Isaac. If that dimension had been built the attempted sacrifice would have slayed unbelieving hearts in the theaters. We would have seen a young man lay down his life for love instead of dry obedience.

I know this review is going against the majority. I think we are loving the story of Abraham as those who've read it a million times. I think we are loving we got one more Christian film in the theaters. I think we are missing the point of these films being a tool to draw the unbelieving into His love. This film drew us into obeying out of duty not out of affection for a Good Father who had proved Himself already as a giver of good gifts through Isaac.

We honor the writers efforts and we have prayed dimensions of revelation of Gods love for to come as he grows in his art. When we as a community can do better and pull out dimensions that stir the most holy of emotions in unbelievers. We did with the Passion and we are doing it with The Chosen. Deepen our writing dimensions Lord!

This movie was so wonderful to watch, and the acting very well done. I was worried it would be too slow, but it followed the scripture and added, similar to The Chosen, some possible encounters on the three day journey.

Loved the way Jesus was a parallel to Abraham's story.

God's only son was perfect. The old testament characters were not, but God used them and kept His promises. I hope more movies like this will be made.

Be sure to read Genesis and talk to friends about the references in the New Testament that lead back to the old. God is still the same today, and seeing this movie is worth your time.

It is easy to get your hopes up for a Christian based movie to make as powerful an impact as the Chosen has.

That said, I love the story, most of the actors are very stiff.

Abraham is far too stoic for a man who hears the voice of God.

The artistic license of the journey to the mountain is somewhat interesting.

The movie does not inspire me to grow closer to God. The sermons I hear from an everyday minister are more inspiring.

I didn't hate the movie because I'm happy that there is still a chance that it touches someone's heart and changes their life.

I am happy to have Christian based content available for my family. My grandchildren were bored in the first ten minutes.

When they watched the Chosen they were glued to the screen.

While is is unfair to compare the two, that is exactly what I find myself doing.

I guess I went in to watching this movie with very high expectations from something from Angel Studios, especially after the successful endeavors with The Chosen and the newer movie Sound of Freedom. But soon into this movie you will find yourself doubting why you decided to watch it. I have actually turned it on and off several times as it cannot keep my attention. There are several factors that go into my decision, including poor acting, poor costumes, but most importantly all of the excessive artistic license that is taken in this movie. I know the story of Abram and Sarai very well. And I realize that this biblical story actually points to the coming of our Messiah in Jesus Christ, but Abraham did not realize that at the time and some of the things he says in the movie was never said or at least not given to us in scripture. I'm all for trying to make things more interesting and filling in the gaps, but when you add information as though it was scriptural to do that then I think you're making the wrong steps.

4 stars for being about 40% accurate. Before making the movie, they should have read Genesis first. They got the basics of the story in there, so congrats I guess. However, this was a very dark, dreary and depressing adaptation of events, polluted with fictionalized (even darker) side stories that made no sense. And straying from the true timeline of Genesis, Sarah looked about age 40 and Abraham 50 at the time of Isaacs' birth. Not too impressive as far as miracles go. Did the writers of this story think a 90 and 100 year old Sarah and Abraham respectively was too far fetched (even for God)? And the Abraham and Sarah portrayed in this story looked like filthy Neanderthals with face tattoos and lived like dirt poor vagabonds. The Abraham and Sarah of the Bible were blessed by God, who prospered them with wealth, land, cattle, and many hired servants. Abraham was a patriarch and founder of a great nation. This was a very bleak portrayal of a great man of God and inaccurate, underwhelming vision of what is one of the most powerful stories of faith in the Scriptures.