The Review - Courageous

In December I went to see the movie Courageous. I was actually quite shocked - and also very pleased - to hear that it was being released in New Zealand, even if only for a very limited season (5 days). Since it is a Christian film made by a church, I was kind of thinking the only place we'd find it would be on DVD in the local Christian bookshop 6 months later. However, Luke and I decided that if cinemas are willing to show these films, then we'd better go see it, so they will be encouraged to show more in the future.

 As you can see from the poster, the Kendrick brothers have moved from Fire Fighters to Police Officers; pretty soon they're going to run out of emergency services. However, I have to say that this movie was definitely equal to if not better than their previous work, Fireproof, although I think they should hand out complimentary tissues at the start of the film because I cried a lot.

 They have definitely upped the ante in their filming, and this movie includes quite a few suspense-filled and well-shot action scenes. The characters are nice and complex, and like real life, nothing is really as black-and-white as we'd like it to be.

As this is a film produced by a church, you'd have to be pretty silly to think there wouldn't be a strong Christian message; really, if there wasn't it would be kind of a waste of the church's money and time, wouldn't it? But that's what I loved about this movie: the Gospel was crystal clear, no subtle underlying message, just BOOM - there's the Gospel.

 

There were also some really humorous parts, which I quite enjoyed.
If you do see it, just make sure you watch all of the credits. It's not very often that you see "Babysitters" in movie credits, but best of all at the end the screen shows "To God Be the Glory".

Until next time :)

PS: I thought I'd add a trailer for those who'd like to check it out.