Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Cortechba Overrated

Skunkyrate Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

melisaquinones Don't let the low scores fool you into not watching this movie. It is genuine, deep, moving and a feel-good movie. Well-written and a really good cast. Do yourself and your family a favor and watch it, together.

strindbergman I started to watch this film thinking it was going to be as good as Remember The Titans or Friday Night Lights (the TV show), or at least it was going to try, but what a disappointment. This film uses American High-School Football as an excuse to convert you into Christianity, or to make you feel good if you are a Christian already. The guys who made this film didn't have in their minds making a good film but to make a film about Jesus and to earn some bucks to pay the bills. But if you are a film lover with a little bit of good taste, refrain from watching this film, unless you are a die-hard football movies fan and/or you love Christian-themed flicks and don't care much about quality. But even then, it's not worth your time, there are better movies out there. Acting: Although you may find an experienced cast, such as Sean Astin and Thomas C. Howell, all of them are very badly directed by the team of brothers who are the actual filmmakers. The only one I could spare would be Jon Voigt. The characters are flat, their personalities lack any hint of human complexity... It's just good or bad, no grey area whatsoever. The main character, coach Tandy Gerelds played by Nic Bishop, is a copycat of Friday Night Lights' coach Eric Taylor (played by Kyle Chandler), but worse. Unless every high school coach behave the same. Cinematography: It looks like this film had a low budget. Then it looks the film crew is used to make movies with low budgets... And it shows. Some shots are "cheap", especially the ones in the football matches, where the Production team may not have all the dough to pay the extras, they probably had just one day to shoot with a large crowd, so sometimes you don't see people cheering in the background. Some shots, especially the ones after a touchdown, have these low-angle shots that are too obvious. And the shots with rain are just ridiculous. Music: They tried to be "epic", but they failed miserably because the chosen score is too epic for what appears on the screen. It's not a matter of not being epic the things that happened in that high school, it's about how it's filmed this feature which makes it too "cheap" for such "epic" music. Doesn't match at all. Screen writing: The events described are treated in a very unnatural, gauged way. Instead of filming greatness through humbleness, they do the opposite. Everything looks fake and too easy, and perhaps it wasn't that easy at all for some black people back there in Alabama in the early 70's. Filmmaking: The movie is way too long. Maybe if it were 90 minutes long, the filmmakers had some good taste and some experience with good filmmaking and knew how to direct the cast, the film would be a 5 or 6 out of 10. Subject: The theme of this film should have been how black people struggled to be accepted by white people through football achievements and with a little help of a preacher, but instead it is a vehicle to show how good Christianity is and how much good could do with your life, when there are wars, refugees, torture, lots of dead people and whatnot in the rest of the world created by the same deity. They should have left the Christian web page at the very end of the credits, not at the beginning. So, this movie is for people who are not very bright, or haven't seen any good film in their lives, or are too fanatic with Christianity that are too blind to see. I know the hard work it is shooting a film, but they tried too hard to make a bad movie. The positive reviews on this film are not trustworthy. Be smart and don't lose 2 hours of your precious time watching this cheap crap. Trust me.

Davis P This movie is next installment in Christian films made by the movie company, PureFlix. PureFlix is also the company that brought us the God's Not Dead films, so obviously I was not expecting all that much. I held out hope for Woodlawn, I was hoping it would be an improvement, that maybe, just maybe they would learn from their mistakes with previous films, but they did not. Alright, for starters, the acting was very disappointing, this is supposed to be a powerful, moving story, and the actors' performances should show that, but they seemed totally unengaged. There were many scenes that were just plain cheesy and fake looking. Sean Astin, oh my, has it come to this?? His performance was the weakest of all. Also, Jon Voight was completely stale and lackluster, no energy whatsoever in his acting here. This movie is so formulaic and unoriginal, you can pretty much predict almost every single thing that is going to happen. And they are not even trying to hide the blatantly obvious fact that this is a propaganda film, The advertisements and phone numbers to call during the final credits cemented that fact. That was very disappointing, like I totally understand it's a Christian film, but there is a difference between a Christian movie and a Christian propaganda movie, just tell the story, without the advertisements. The movie is just simply weak, I am not disrespecting the story it is based off of, or the Christian beliefs that are expressed. I am simply saying that the filmmakers were weak in this screen adaptation, they didn't do the story it is based of off justice. No redeeming qualities here, 1/10 for Woodlawn.

benhuntnever I had no idea what this movie was about. My wife picked it and all I thought was great another awful chick flick. This movie was great, but in order to make the most out of it I highly recommend watching it on DVD because at the end you can see the true story of Woodlawn and it helps to bring the whole movie together. I read where other people watched the movie and were disappointed because they felt some things were left unanswered. Well I did also but fortunately I let the credits run and up popped the screen for the bonus stuff. Don't watch just the True Story Of Woodlawn, watch all of the bonus stuff. It will be worth it.There will be haters because they just can't stand anything about God. Sorry haters, this movie was awesome. What makes it so much better than other movies of this same genre is that this one is based on a true story.