The Favorite

We all understand that imdb is now flooded with fake reviews - but it's that it's so obvious. This is NOT a 10-star movie. Even if you place ridiculous amounts of importance on the faith-based contrived background. It's a nice story... it's got a nice message. The acting is... well, it will do. The dialog is rather wooden and forced. The message is delivered in the usual ham-handed way these movies tend to be. If you're not one of those people that almost exclusively seeks out this kind of propaganda-lite material, you'e wasting your time. You will find it hokey and even embarrassing to get through at times.

What I loved about this movie is that it had something for everyone in our family. There is romance, action, and a solid story line about relationships that everyone can relate to. I was deeply touched by the message and it got me doing some real soul searching. I was very impressed with the quality of acting and production. I would not recommend this for smaller children as there are some fighting scenes that are very realistic, but I found nothing offensive that made me uneasy about having teenagers there.

I'm obviously in the minority here but I just found this faith-based film to be quite awkward and strained in its presentation, with quite a lot of stilted dialogue and acting.

We see in the closing credits that the movie is actually based on the miraculous recovery, from an auto accident, of Luke Benjamin Bernard, who stars in the film and also wrote the screenplay. However in the film itself, Matthew Fahey portrays Luke with Bernard in the role of his brother Ben.

There's also a concurrent theme here of a brother's deep resentment that his father was constantly favoring his sibling. I felt the movie handled this healing process in a heartfelt manner.

Overall, faith-based films are not usually my cup of tea, but as one can see other reviewers found more in this movie than I could.

This movie stinks. There is not one good part of the movie. There is not one good quality actor in this movie. This was painfully bad. It was so frustrating to watch. Oh my goodness, I cannot stress how bad this is. Yikes.

I am not going to sit here and tell you the movie but I can tell you this it had me doing a whole lot of thinking of my past relationship with my father and brother. This is a must-see movie. I recommend that you go and see it