Road to Redemption (2001)

Too much of everything

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Got this movie when it first came out for watching on Sabbath afternoon with our young boys. We laughed and giggled all the way through until the serious parts, then teared over when the simple gospel message is presented. It's still one of the Sabbath movies that gets thrown in to watch.Starts simple enough - when presented with the opportunity to make some quick money that wasn't hers in the first place with a heads-up for a horse race, Amanda and her boyfriend try to make a ton of money. When that failed, Amanda decides to try to get her uncle from long ago to cough up the money she needs to pay off her boss that they stole the money from.Problem after problem occurs while trying to fulfill her uncle's one request - to go fishing at a particular lake.Chased by the boss, her boyfriend, the goon and a hunter, more bad things happen but all seems to bring Amanda closer to realizing she really does need God.The basics of the movie are very much like the old Disney style home/family movies before the magic and bad plots were entered.Good for kids, good for parents.

This movie is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I thought it might be a comedy movie and watched it. The comedy scenes in the movie look totally attached into the script, they don't form a part of the story at all. Many scenes in this movie look totally unrealistic and impossible. The storyline itself is unrealistic. While watching the movie I thought of a worst possible ending for the movie and told myself no movie will possibly have such a bad story. But then I was surprised; It had the same worst ending I thought of! I felt it was not a conventional movie just 30 minutes into the movie. Finally only I realized that it was a movie targeted for the Christian movie community. That explained everything. As told by one other comment about the movie, the Christian movie making people are way behind their secular counterparts in the quality of their work. I guess having a religious agenda for a movie really takes all the quality in story, screenplay and direction out of it.

Here I am to tell you my opinions on "Road to Redemption". Of all the Christian movies I've seen ("Left Behind", "The Climb" and "The Ride") this is the best one. No one dies and there is no tacky "flash back" that seem to ALWAYS be in Christian movies (*ahem* take note of that please "Climb" and "Ride" script writers) It was a fairly amusing movie not all drama and Billy Grahmn (sp) was BARELY in it! Its a good start for Christian movies, hopefully its the "Keith Green" of Christian movies! =) (By the way: a teacher @ my school always claimed some guy named Keith Green was one of the first Christian singers or something.)

This is a fair comedy that is worth taking a look at. It will not have you in stitches or rolling on the floor, but isn't bad to view once. Pat Hingle plays the charming old man he has so many times before. The lead female does an adequate job too. I walked away getting what I had expected. I feel Christians still have a long way to go in the film making industry. I found "Left Behind" to be very disappointing. If Christians want films to be used as outreach tools, they must realize that Christian movies must be of the same production quality as their secular counterparts. I originally saw this movie back when I was a Christian and found it fair. Despite my change in beliefs, my opinion of it remains unchanged.