Monday, August 20, 2007

Christian Movie Reviews urge Christians to watch "Amazing Grace"

The promoter of the movie "Amazing Grace" and Christian Movie Reviews are asking christian viewers to make an impact on Hollywood by seeing the new movie.

"Amazing Grace" tells the story of William Wilverforce, an influential productive christian leader and parliamentarian, who campaigned for 20 years to abolish slavery, succeeding in 1807 with slavery being prohibited throughout the commonwealth.

Movie promoters and church leaders say "Amazing Grace" is a "Golden outreach opportunity" to convert non-believers to the christian faith.

RottenTomatoes.com gives the flick a 6.5/10, which is relatively high compared to End of the Spear, which received a 4.2/10

Amazing Grace deals with the early career of British abolitionist William Wilberforce. His was a life marrying politics and Christian faith, devoted to ridding late 18th Century Britain of the slave trade. It took 18 years and a new century for Wilberforce to effect this momentous change, in 1807."

"Mostly we get what we expect. The script ticks off the elements: A romance with wife-to-be Barbara Spooner (Romola Garai); friendship and political alliance with Prime Minister William Pitt (Benedict Cumberbatch); heart-to-heart talks with mentor and former slave trader John Newton (Albert Finney), who wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace" to atone for his sins."

"Director Apted's career has been an interesting one, though uneven outside his marvelous ongoing "7 Up" documentary series. He and editor Rick Shaine have worked together several times, and somehow the results always end up in the middling range. Their work isn't stiff; on the contrary, if anything, the rhythms they establish are jumpy and unsteady, afraid of allowing a scene to breathe and flow naturally. If the script were more alive, these matters of visual technique would matter less. But not much less."

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