Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I received this movie as a gift this year (2010) and frankly, had never heard of it, even though I pay attention to movie releases. I approached it with no expectations whatsoever. To me, almost everything about the movie, including the Christian subculture, the cast, the director, and so on, was an unknown. I've never seen a movie rated with so many 1's and 10's before. I suspect that people are projecting their religious agendas, and not properly rating the movie itself. A movie needs a good story; and I found the story engrossing, so that gives it at least a 6, for me. What particularly fascinated me was the highly interior look at personal conflict and challenges in church ministry, and this is a very honest movie. The music and the setting were an entertaining and enjoyable backdrop to the story, enough to raise the score to a 7. The acting won't win Oscars, but I felt deeply involved emotionally at various points in the story. Because of the Christian context, I believe many viewers just won't get into the story. The only thing to add is that I've never actually seen a movie like this; that in itself makes it worth watching, and brings the score to an 8, which places it within the top 10% of movies I've seen.

The Gospel was a good movie that deserves more credit than it received. When the Gospel first hit movie theaters I didn't think of it as a movie worth going to see, and I just recently saw it and it was actually really enjoying. What I loved most about The Gospel was the music because I am a fan of gospel music and I love most of the artists that performed. The only bad point was the voice that was chosen for Boris Kodjoe's character, which did not fit his persona. Nona Gaye did a bang up job in the movie, as well as Tamyra Gray, and Idris Alba. Although, I did not like the character that was chosen for Donny McClurkin, because to me Donny McClurkin's real life personality did not collide with the character he portrayed. Now please don't be mistaken, I understand that when you are portraying someone else that is exactly what you are doing, but usually actors merge their own character with the person they're portraying. So if you haven't seen The Gospel see it, you can even watch it with your family.

The reason people will trash this movie is because it has religious overtones. Well, I guess I should say, it is a religious movie, no overtones about it. If you haven't been paying attention lately, anything that comes out of Hollywood with any kind of a religious message is going to be attacked, no matter the quality of the movie.We should all remember the savaging of The Passion before it even hit the theaters. People were tearing that movie apart long before they had even seen it. The experience of this movie is no different.Jim Rohn said many years ago that good will always be attacked by evil. Always. There is absolutely no reason for this film to be rated 2.9. While I wouldn't give it a 10, I would have rated it 7 or 8. But the story that this movie tells is that of good people struggling with their faults and trying to rise above them. But, they try to do this rising by calling on Jesus for strength and there are a lot of people in this country, and around the world for that matter, that can't stomach the thought of anyone turning their hearts towards God and asking for His help.Those who were expecting some big budget, glitzy Hollywood blockbuster were going to be disappointed. The budget on this film was five million dollars. That kind of budget wouldn't even buy twenty minutes of screen time from someone like Jim Carrey or George Clooney, let alone shoot the whole movie. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was budgeted at twenty million (which is ultra-low budget by current Hollywood standards). Does that mean that it was four times better than The Gospel? Not by a long shot. I'll watch The Gospel again, but I don't think I'll feel any remorse or loss if I never see Eternal Sunshine again. And a lot of Jim's current movies will leave me quite satisfied, just not that one.So, you ask why this film is rated so low here? This is your answer. Good will always come under attack from evil. Always.

of all the comments here I could deal least with skoptarevich whom I consider doctrinaire. forgiveness and inclusion is the way for me.rules are to guide and nothing else.lots of people seem unable to develop questions like who is Rob hardy and what is his view of things? why would he make make a movie like this and present it to the public? the lack of development of story-lines and all the other "flaws' of Hardy's work here, alluded to by many reviewers, seems not to belie the fact that all they list could not possibly have been been missed by Hardy from the start....Hardy who clearly is a highly competent professional.the end result then has to be exactly what he intended.that intent to me is the presentation of a film that looks great, has an accessible and important message, explores the social reality of African American churches to an extent...but of vast and basic importance here seems the presentation of African Americans in a positive light in their daily lives that is more consistent with everyday reality. it is the way they are and the way the would be all be things being more equal than not.Hardy gives us an impression of African America that is healthy not drug ridden, overflowing with pimps and police, almost naked Blac women shaking their tails over everything. Hardy gave us a cast the most consistent and intriguing feature of which is its normalcy, its normal health and humanity. it is middle class African America, it is a good impression and hardly inaccurate.the music was special, Tamyra Gray special also, Nona Gaye a truly impressive woman, Elba and Powell fine actors, Boris Kodjoe, a presence that contributes mightily to the overall impression of African American humanity that Hardy surely intended to convey first and foremost, at the expense of all the so-called short-comings of the movie.Boris Kudjoe is calm, charming, strong, quiet, tall and unrelentingly good-looking. He did no harm to this movie..indeed made it the excellent whole, fine product that it is.especially during Kodjoes 'rendition' of "God you are good and your mercy endure-th forever," the tremendously rich dark, tan, chocolate, brown tones of the picture drew to mind a descriptive that can only be termed classic - American classic.Yes that is exactly what it is - classical - for it is of original America, the 'original' America of the colonists and slaves, the music that is basic to that America and its creative streams finally I am African but not American, and though brought up a catholic I do not subscribe to any religious conception of things human.Yet I try to understand and accept the conceptions of things otheres hold, how they have achieved their survival and what because of these conceptions. what works for them is fine by me. and when I see such as Gospel I get a glimpse of what works for African Americans, and it is something fine to behold....indeed!