Excellent, smart action film.

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

This is a semi-faith based film that attempts to disguise itself. Vian (Sean Bean) beats a man to death. After 12 years in prison, he gets out and finds out no one wants anything to do with him. His sister (Kate Walsh) who believes "God will provide" reluctantly takes him for a few weeks, during which time he picks up Eva Longoria by asking her about her sign. Things go up for Sean and right when the story was getting ready to stall, the down slide happens to wake us back up.This was a slow moving drama about an ex-con, forgiveness, redemption, and Jimmy's rock. None of the theme aspects were done particularly well, but then again it wasn't bad...just meh.Guide: No swearing, or nudity. Implied sex.

I save one star reviews for movies that destroy the source material, like Episode 1 or Starship Troopers, so this is getting the lowest I can give.This was colossally ham handed. Every part of it was sub-par, even the performances from otherwise decent actors, but the writing was probably the worst part of it.Choppy, predictable, awkward, and fake. "I'ms sorry I was such a creep"Okay, I understand not wanting to swear, and that this was targeted at a religious audience, but look at Napolean Dynamite; no swearing, and yet there was conflict. Or any well-written TV Drama. Or even any adequate TV Drama. I have to give this review low marks, because I am just incapable of describing how bad this movie really was. I am begging you not to watch it. And I sat through Wesley Snipes' undead cowboy movie and came up with a reason it wasn't horrible. Consider that the scale of this movie's badness.

I spent 5 minutes of my life resetting my IMDb password to tell you that this is the most bizarre and stupidest movie I've ever seen. There is no defined tone. The protagonist is flat, flat, flat. This movie is whiter than the movie White Girls. What was going on in that house party / dance scene? just what. There is a scene transition every 30 seconds with the strangest music. The kid plays a robot playing a kid. I am so sorry for the people involved in this film. Someone did them very, very wrong. Of all the Sean Bean movies that he dies, his character survives this, but we'll see if his career does. I'm still just very confused about how this got made. Do people read scripts anymore?

I noticed this new release has only had one other review by Paul Allaer who seemed to dislike it very much . My own motives for seeing it was simply down to seeing a film before it went on general release and the fact it contains the novelty of a film starring Sean Bean where he plays an American character as in he doesn't speak with a broad Yorkshire accent . The remake of THE HITCHER was the only other film I can think of when Bean did this !!!! SUGGESTIVE SPOILERS !!!! After seeing AD I have to agree with Paul that it's not a great film and I agree with him the reasons why it's not a great film . It is a redemption plot and an all too obvious redemption plot and one with all too predictable twists . If someone says " No drinking or else" you can guarantee there will some drinking going on and else will indeed happen . One key plot turn quite literally rips off a scene from THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION and a prior scene to take us there indicates this is a Christian film , though to be fair to the movie it's not really propaganda and doesn't equate atheists as being terrible people and believers as wonderful . It's up to the viewer's interpretation to take a certain scene as literal divine intervention or as a dream . That said the character interaction between Vian and Roland as they work all day together in a kitchen does have a ring of truth to it and the cast are very likable . Just a pity they weren't working with stronger material