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Awesome Movie

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The very best film/play I have seen since "12 Angry men". Have lofty ideas about the nature of existence, and how we should feel about it? Watch this.

This is the most boring movie ever made! Idare anyone to find anything worse. This movie should be banned as it could lead to suicides! And the irony in this is that suicide is the main theme of this piece of hot steaming garbage. I am shocked that such an awful thing gets produced. Do you guys realize how many chances people had to stop this garbage from being released onto the world? From writing to pre production then filming ,editing and marketing someone at some point could have said "ok people are were really gonna release this?" Well. It got made. It got out. And it's worth 0 in my opinion. I was forced to give this piece of crap 1 star. But to be honest one is too much.

A professor (Tommy Lee Jones) tries to commit suicide by jumping in front of a train, "The Sunset Limited". Another man (Samuel L. Jackson) claims to be his guardian angel. The two men debate their beliefs in the professor's apartment. The professor insists on leaving the apartment and probably go to commit suicide. The other insists on following him and convince him to embrace God.It's a two person play in a confined space. These are two great actors. The debate is constant and unabated. It feels more academic than personal. These characters are not necessarily flesh and blood. The writing is not natural enough and always feels like a play. It has the power of sincerity but lacks the feel of reality. This has the potential of a reveal but the play doesn't take advantage. This is an academic play but it doesn't actually breathe.

I can see how both camps, Atheist and God-people are irritated during the first 10-15 minutes of this movie. Atheist: "YAY, we're finally portrayed on-screen at-ALL, but heck, it's a completely depressed suicidal guy representing our viewpoint", and the god-people are ticked because all they get is a broke jail-house felon. What you have to understand is that this a movie about two PARTICULAR people. One is an atheist, one is a Christian, but neither of these people necessarily represent either party. They're just people. A specific person speaking to another specific person.There are a million things that I could pinpoint about this movie that make it a 9 instead of a 10. War and Peace? Best book ever? He could have said "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" or "Game of Thrones" or "Cryptonomicon" or "Count of Monte Cristo" or a million other amazing books, but War and Peace is genuinely NOT THAT WELL WRITTEN. Fear of knowledge is a really serious contemporary problem and I don't particularly like the way being informed is portrayed here. Most of all, not having read the entire Bible? Weird. Most of us read the whole thing just for the funny, if not also the Apocrypha and any other Klingon writings. That bit is pretty hard to swallow.After watching this three times, I feel like the biggest message that god-people can take home, is seeing how Tommy Lee Jones pretty much keeps his mouth shut for an hour, just doling out little interesting things, until he finally gets so entirely fed up that he just absolutely destroys the world-view of Sam Jackson. This is WHY we don't unload on people. I might not believe in your god or gods or whatever whackadoodle thing, but I'm a good person and I don't go around utterly destroying people for the fun of it. Watch his reluctance and shaky resistance to doing it. He's literally about to kill himself, knowing that he will not exist in any way and there ARE no judgments or aftermath... and he STILL won't humiliate another person, because there is no law above to tell him what to do - he just knows how to be a good person.It's a great play, as long as you understand that it's two very specific people talking, not two representatives of two very diverse groups.