The Encounter 2: Paradise Lost (2012)
Seven years after the world's most devastating tsunami in Thailand six strangers find themselves trapped in a beach side resort on the brink of an oncoming hurricane. Each of their hearts are broken and silently cry out on the most desperate night of their lives. As the storm rages on and the six strangers fall deeper into the heart of darkness another guest arrives at the hotel. He says he is Jesus Christ, and he knows what each of them suffers from. Knowing their dire need, he came to bring them all a message of hope and rescue them from the darkest corners of their own hearts.
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The acting in this movie is really good.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
The first Encounter done two years before this one had something that I liked which was, one of the characters gets to challenge God with some really mind bogging question that many of us today would really like to ask, the question was "if God is love, then why did he order a genocide, by telling the Israelites to kill all living thing in Canaan?" This second Encounter mind bogging question was, "If it pains God so much to see innocent children die; why does he not stop it?"Like in the first the mind bogging question was answered not with skill of words but by saying the truth according to the scripture.The Encounter: Paradise Lost has the same bad cinematography as the first and a longer wait time till we see Jesus. I don't think this movie is anywhere as good as the first because it lacks the innocent adventure that the first movie possesses.Wrapped around the tsunami that hit Thailand in 2004, this movie's weak script and less impressive acting made it hard for me to keep awake while watching; I thought the cinematography in the first was bad, well because the first was shot in a confined area I didn't get to see a full dosage of what the cinematographer could dish out, well due to the success of the first movie the makers used more scenery and lot more cast and all we have is a washed up story that at the end I learnt nothing.The movie plot is broader than that of the first, it goes on for like 38 minutes before we get to the Jesus character, when we do see him he is again in an enclosed area with people this time there are 6. A couple who just lost a son, a drug dealer, his henchman, the drug dealer's wife and a police officer chasing down the drug dealer.The character Jesus comes into play and tries to save everybody, but like the first movie not everybody got saved and death which resulted from not following Christ also came to play in this film.The acting was more a mediocre than the one in the first, the movie lacked of good actors and the man who played Jesus (Bruce Marchiano) was like a king among slaves when the acting is considered. This movie is what makes many people stay away from independent films, badly produced, story line is weak and the movie itself is just boring with a capital B.Many great producers came about from making independent films, but this producer needs to go back to the drawing board and give us a better story. I wish I could un-watch this movie.www.lagsreviews.com
Well, I guess we should all get saved in our young teen years and then live life like we want to without worrying about Hell since evidently the message in this movie is that you can do just that and still make it to Heaven. Since when did accepting a gift from the God (Eternal Life) become a forced ticket to Heaven even if you serve Satan from that point on? The first movie was good, but this movie is trying to appeal to worldly views and Hollywood views of God that everyone makes it to Heaven so long as they cried "Lord Lord" (Matthew 7:21) at one point or another in their life than they are guaranteed a ticket to Heaven, period because we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings and we have to treat our congregations and brethren with kid gloves so not to offend anyone because our society is stuck on the pacifier and won't read what the Bible says. Not everyone who cries Lord Lord will enter into heaven but only he who DOES THE WILL of my Father who is in heaven. I am pretty sure doing Heroin and dying of an overdose is NOT doing the will of God. And just because you cried Lord Lord at the age of 14 and asking God into your life and then living for Satan and dying in your sins outside of the will of God would be a big disqualifier. Also, the movie takes about "Free Will" if you ask Jesus into your life and then you are FORCED into heaven even after living for Satan and worshipping Satan, than the movie contradicts itself. People like to bring up how God promised eternal life and it wouldn't be eternal if you could be "unsaved". Yes, God promised eternal life, to everyone, and it is up to you where you want to spend it. People like to bring up how in Roman's it says "nothing can separate a Christian from God's love". This passage which is a common defense for eternal security has nothing to do with it because if the Christian stays a Christian or not God will love them. In John it talks about how nothing can remove a Christian from God's hand and this is true, because as the movie talked about, you have free will and you must chose to leave God and to turn your back on him and follow Satan and the path to eternal torment. In essence, you will not be removed from his by force; you will choose to leave it under your own free will by accepting Satan as your God.
I love the guy who plays Jesus in this movie and the first Encounter movie. He has the greatest smile and is extremely believable in the role. I think it's so great that real Bible Christianity is finally being taught here. A Christian heroin addict dies and they show that she goes to heaven. Of course she would. Does the Bible teach that taking drugs is a bigger sin than the sin of doubt, worry, fear or lying, and no one doubts that those sins will keep you out of heaven. Thank goodness the blood paid for it all! I didn't mind the violence so much because, why sugar coat real life and the problems real life Christians face everyday!
Wow, I was highly disappointed with the Encounter 2. The pureness, simplicity, and intricate character development of the first film are missing here. Instead we have a pseudo-Christian film that wants so badly to be a secular Hollywood action thriller instead of a movie glorifying Christ. Why do we need such senseless violence and gun play in a Christian film? A girl overdoses on heroin but she still goes to heaven because she gave her life to Christ when she was fourteen? Huh, does that make any sense?? I left the first film feeling encouraged and uplifted. After watching this movie I wanted to repent. Don't waste your time on it.