Amazing Love

This movie was kinda cheap however there are great significant and valuable lessons displayed. We see the comparison between the biblical account and a group of teens camping out. The biblical account is God communicating to his people the Israelites. God had a covenant with them but regardless of that they kept on cheating on God. This movie does a great job displaying how God was using Hosea to communicate to his people and how that applies to the campers lives and in return applies to our lives. I'm not giving any spoilers but the campers and the bible characters all match up so in the end it's basically the same story with a few modern differences. This is a great family movie, appropriate and educational for all ages.

The Book of Hosea is one of the most compelling books of the Bible for a number of reasons, one of which is because it's a love story, so it's bound to resonate with everyone on some level. So for this film, a camping trip is used to contextualize the story.

It begins with a few young Christians taken to the wilderness for a weekend by none other than Sean Astin, a great casting choice. The core group gets along well enough, but one character is outed because she's different on the surface. With that said, the characters aren't the selling point, but I think they do good enough of a job that they don't weigh down the meat of the story, which is the story of Hosea.

In it, we get an interesting depiction of Hosea, the trials he endured with his wife Gomer, and the relation it had to God and Israel (or His people in general.) We're taken through the story while the characters react to it in a way that I believe teens actually would. They don't agree with God's ways at first, but once they understand the depths of love He has for us, it seems to make more sense. Willingness to sacrifice. The acting and sets in the ancient scenes are also quite good.

The camping trip may seem to be the weaker element at first, but the characters grow on you because they experience their own changes and growth; but as for the depiction of Hosea and his life, those scenes are engaging and compelling. Additionally, the youth scenes contrast the more serious parts for the sake of pacing and variety, as well as relatability.

Overall, it's pretty good. Not perfect, but the message was what mattered because Hosea's story is touching and poignant.

This film is basically two movies in one: the story of modern teenagers on a Christian retreat in the woods, and the story of Hosea's struggles with his wife and his people in the Old Testament. The Hosea scenes have excellent acting, beautiful scenery, and a deep and powerful plot. The camping-teenagers scenes have cheesy dialogue and terrible acting. It's worth sitting (or fast-forwarding) through the one plot to get to the other. This movie is deep and mature, while still having little sex, violence, or profanity, which is not the case of so much trash produced these days. If you want a clean flick that will make you think, this one's a keeper. I typically dislike Christian movies despite being a devout Christian, because they typically have terrible acting and cheesy dialogue, but the Hosea parts are different. Note that though this movie is clean and is based on scripture, I don't think it's suited for young children. The plot deals with prostitution and adultery (none of it acted on-screen). Kids would just be confused.

I think the movie, Amazing Love relates really well to the Hosea story. It talks about all the main parts and adds a nice view point. It showed me Hosea's character. It's one thing to read about how Hosea was but watching someone act out this part was amazing because Hosea was such a special, religious man. The movie related to Hosea's story in many ways while still adding a new view point.

I always knew Hosea was a great guy but watching this movie made me really see how forgiving, kind and loving he was. It relates to Hosea's story in the bible really well. It talks about the kids and the prophecies and Israel, but it highlights Hosea's relationship with Gomer. Gomer is viewed in a bad light, as a whore and an unfaithful woman. She doesn't love and appreciate Hosea and he still loves her with all his heart. The movie gives us a new perspective on that though because the movie says how we shouldn't judge someone if we don't know the whole story and how we should be kind to people like Hosea was. Just a little bit of kindness can change someone's life. Overall it was an enjoyable movie, the filming was good quality ,the acting was realistic, and the movie related to Hosea's story really well.

This story means a lot to me because it really lets us see how someone can have such a big impact on everything. Hosea didn't care what people thought about him and he didn't change his ways to protect his ego, he was completely loyal and faithful to God. It shows that with God we can do anything and more importantly with God we can change peoples lives for the better. In the movie, I really liked the part in which Carrie and Ashley had a fight because it shows another situation in which we can look at Hosea's message. Maybe it wasn't the message he was speaking but it was the message he was showing. We need to always be kind to people and show God's light through our actions because we could change someone's life like Hosea changed Gomer's or like Carrie changed Ashley's. The movie was excellent and added a really nice view point. I would recommend watching it.

I expected an acting, writing, and directing quality on a par with The Chosen, given the common heritage. I've never seen a dramatic production of Hosea and I love the biblical story so I was looking forward to seeing this one.

The Bible story part of the movie is true to the biblical narrative, along with necessary dramatic additions to turn an old story into a modern dramatization. As others have said: good lessons and true to the Bible.

But the acting is painful, on a par with high school drama. The writing is adolescent. Otherwise good actors have a hard time delivering the lines because the language is so choppy and hard to relate to. I hate to say it but this is another typical B-grade production from the Christian drama department.

There's another story that takes up about 60% of the screen time about camp kids in the modern age that are told the story of Hosea and Homer around the campfire. This story basically reduces the target audience to adolescent christians.

If this were focused on Hosea and Gomer and developed into a full dramatization of the biblical story I'd give it a 70-75% even with the disappointing production; with the unnecessary sideline I downgrade it to 50%.