Facing the Giants
September 29th, 2006 by Jerry
Just a quick review of this brave motion picture effort.. Go.. See.. This.. Movie.
Seriously, don’t expect phenomenal acting, but they’re still pretty darn good. The story is great and everyone does a good job of getting the story across without being cheezy. It’s written, directed, produced, and casted with mostly church staff. I think it’s better this way, rather than if a bunch of million-dollar actors had been casted.
Warning: Don’t watch this if the idea of a coach sharing his faith in Jesus with his football team, school, and town offends you. It’s rated PG, “for some thematic elements” – what in the world does that mean? After all the contraversy of the MPAA giving a PG rating to a movie with no swearing or sexual content at all, the justification seems to be some of the intense moments where the coach leads his team – at the top of his lungs. It’s still hard to not think that they’re withholding the G rating because it repeatedly mentions “Jesus Christ” (not as an expletive) and plainly lays out some powerful fundamentals of Christian faith.
Actually, conspiracy theories aside, it’s probably not too weird that a movie with football and coach-yelling-at-players scenes gets a PG rating. It’s really not that big of a deal, but it is remarkable that something like this even made it into the few theaters it’s in (for this weekend). Find one near you and go see it.