Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

jaredandjas This is a good film to watch. Although it has the low-budget feeling, it promotes a good message. It passes a good message, and shows a twist on traditional practices. Not your average movie, that contains sex or gore. The slow developing plot took a little bit to even figure out what the movie was about. The accents are a little off, i agree to that. But who honestly knows what the accents where back then. When everyone was moving west, it was a major culture collision. The only thing I would have changed was a more developing plot towards the ending. "The Dark Secret," didn't even come into play till the last minutes. No reference point what-so-ever to what it was actually was.

popdrome Let me start off by saying I am not a Christian (I DO believe in God but I'm afraid that doesn't make me a Christian) - and to answer your question: YES, this is a *Christian* movie, with a very clear message, but I won't spoil the plot for you.The story in a nutshell is the awakening of a Welsh community in early America, coming to terms with their dark history, seen through the eyes of a ten year old child.There are flaws. It's based on a novel, so the director had to make difficult choices to narrow down the plot for screen time. The editing wasn't good and led to some incoherency and superficial plot holes. The story sometimes wasn't going anywhere, and the 'horror' scenes best could've been left out, they seem out of place. Special effects looked cheap. Last and least: the accents. They should've invested a bit more in accent training because this sounded like a far fetched (teethless) dialect..But there's some good performances to be admired. First of all, I tip my hat for Liana Liberato. What a great actress at such a young age. Secondly Soren Fulton did a great job and there was lots of chemistry between him and Liana. And what about Louise Fletcher?! Excellent. The actress who once played the horrid nurse Pratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest).. she performed wonderfully and was brilliantly cast.So let's see what we have here. If you take all these things into account and you're not scared off by evangelism - not bad for a Sunday afternoon.

Sean Richard McCarthy First of all, this comment does contain spoilers, but secondly and most important it also contains Christian views, as I consider this a Christian movie. I applaud "Michael Landon Jr." and "Henry Thomas" for being the replacement for my last admirations "Ron Howard" and "Tom Hanks". I lost favor for Ron & Tom after they insulted our Lord in that totally mendacious movie ('DisMeStupid Code' <-my opinionated name for it)!Yes, The Last Sin Eater is weird, but it does NOT demean God or try to down play the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made for us! In fact you will find that it praises Christ Our Lord! I only wish that it said right out (like explained in the movie "Last Flight Out") that you obtain salvation by admitting to God that you are a sinner, that you know that Jesus Christ is way to peace and asking for Jesus to forgive your sins.I have not said much about the story line of this movie. Please get it from the other comments and the summary of the movie. I just wanted to express my appreciation for the movie.Thanks also of course to Francine Rivers' who wrote the novel!

ncontrucci The mountainous setting was beautiful; the setting appropriately looked like the Appalachia Mountains and was actually filmed in Utah! The story followed Francine Rivers' novel fairly closely. It was a plausible story of how resistant people are to God's truth and how questionable traditions replace His truth. A clear gospel message was presented through Cadi's quest for forgiveness by the Sin Eater. Although disturbing, the flashback of brutal treatment of Native Americans did depict a compassionate little boy forced to participate in brutal acts by his father. This helped portray the character of Brogan Kai, the extremely harsh antagonist, and the reason for his authoritarian "rule" of the community of people living in this cove for the past generation. Would a 12-year old girl have the courage to push against customs and adults knowing the brutality and possible death she would face? One statement was made near the end of the film, "Cadi Forbes, God's hasn't given you a heart of fear," which helped make her actions seem possible. The characters were developed to such a degree to get across the Story's themes of isolation, rejection, desperation, authoritarian control, unquestioned obedience, fear vs truth, forgiveness, and salvation.