The Messenger's Box

Just as the title implies, this movie is a faith based movie about an old wooden box that the main character calls, "the messenger's box". The main character, Jake Casper, is a typical teenage boy who gains possession of a wooden box he finds in his recently deceased grandfather's shop. He becomes intrigued by the box when he discovers it contains some kind of power and carries it with him everywhere he goes. Strange things happen when he opens the box, and Jake questions the origins of the box itself. Jake is the object of a bully, and this bully plays an important part in the story line. The Messenger's Box" contains elements of friendship, bullying, boy meets girl, and mild violence involved with the bullying. As an adult, I found this movie very enjoyable and would recommend it as a movie that could be used for family night. I think that I would not show it to a child younger than 10-12 because of the mild violence in the bullying element. For adults, there are enough adult characters in the movie as well who play more minor roles.

This was a good fantasy film that the whole family will enjoy.

There's little positive to say about this movie. It seems like someone tried to convert a short story or a hastily conceived concept into a full feature film. I can't even give it points for promoting Christian doctrine since it's only tie to the faith is an attempt to attach magic qualities to fictional relics of Christian symbolism. Even graded on a curve against other low budget films, this one is worth avoiding.

A simple wooden box is given by Jesus to a young boy containing a nail from the crucifixion which presumably happens after the resurrection before the ascension.

Flash forward from the 1st to the 21st century and the box falls into the hands of young Luke Hodgson. To Hodgson and to only a few others visins of the events of Calvary occur. Includimjg to Dick Anthony Williams, another young man who has had his leukemia come out of remission.

The Messenger's Box was a sincere effort, but too much has been proven false about religious relics the past to have anyone realy believe these evets. Most prominently the Shroud of Turin which covered the dead and crucifed Jesus presumably. It got to Italy somehow as this got to Middle America.

This film won't get out f church basements.