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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The film (Apostasy (2018), attempts to show how a family of Jehovah's Witnesses are affected when confronted with a family member who chooses to flaunt the groups Bible based standards, leading to being disfellowshipped. Also, the issue of blood transfusion is a major theme. My problem with the film is that no effort is made to explain the scriptural basis for their beliefs that have so profound an effect on the decisions governing their lives, but rather a covert appeal is made to the sentiments and sensibilities of those who identify with the characters at an emotional level. The film therefore constitutes a distortion of the truth. This is a misrepresentation of Jehovah's Witnesses and only disfigures the public's perception of them and their bible based beliefs.

I was a JW for many years and watched this movie and expected a lot more from it. It was truly dull and never really depicted the horrid cult of Watch Tower as evil and twisted, which it truly is. They regularly drive people to suicide because of their "shunning" policy, but this was never touched upon in any meaningful way. The acting was very good but the screenplay was a tepid affair that didn't hit home the truth about this cult. I definitely couldn't sit through this again. I give it 3 stars because of the solid acting.

I was a Jehovah's Witness for eight years. Disassociated. (That means I left on my own free-will.) The movie is very well made and 100% accurate with the terminology and procedures used by Jehovah's Witnesses. It does not sugar coat the issues between the Watchtower Organization's brutal policy of shunning disfellowshipped family members, nor does it even resolve the issues or comforts the viewer. The movie simply gives us the hard truth of the impact caused by extreme religious indoctrination. One can only watch this and reflect on their own experience.

I was raised as a Jehovah's witnesses and left when I was 18. This is a supremely immense film and very good for ex JWs and Jws alone.