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Great Film overall

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Not the most reasonable. but fundamentals. shadows. and faith and trust and options. good performances. a touching story. and something more. a state who escapes from easy definitions. because it reminds known stories about sad love stories. and impressive thrillers. and good dramas. all in the admirable manner. the performance of Patrick Wilson is real great. maybe, because his character remains a gray one . Charlie Hunnam did a splendid job as a young man looking for sense to a life dominated by past. Christopher Gorhan gives the necessary spice to a story who, after the end of film, remains fresh and powerful. so, a special film. more Christian than you expect.

The story was interesting, and not boring. However I felt no connection with any of the characters, or respect for that matter. Except for the two gay guys (which I have nothing in common with) who were the only two sane characters. I am not a fan of overly propagandized movies. Although I don't mind people/characters having their own opinions, and belief systems when the entire movie is based on demonizing one of them it becomes propaganda and no longer a story.So the story was interesting and almost good, however throughout the whole movie I felt like a political agenda was being shoved down my throat.

I have to admit, I skipped to the ending after watching a bit over half the movie. I wanted to see if I was right. Of course, I was. It's very easy to see why this movie has garnered such attention as an atheist movie, something that I didn't know before I watched it... well, most of it.Gavin is not a likable character. He's an outspoken atheist, spouting his opinions left and right and has problems with other people's opinions. Gavin meets Shana, Shana introduces him to Joe. Joe's a Christian. Gavin decides he doesn't like Joe but does like Joe's wife, Shana, and wants to liberate her from Joe's Christian fundamentalist clutches. Shana has affair with Gavin. Joe catches them, goes nuts, grabs a gun (of course, every right wing, Christian fundamentalist has a gun, duh!), and gives Gavin an ultimatum. jump off a ledge or he shoots Shana. Terrence Howard's Det. Lucetti is along for the ride trying to talk Gavin down from the ledge and has his own story.The character Joe is somewhat like the writer/director Matthew Chapman's version of a movie monster. Something that cannot be reasoned with and capable of great violence, i.e. a bible thumping Terminator. I understood Chapman very well halfway through the movie, which is why I skipped to the ending. He's cynical, overbearing, and terrified of anyone who believes in a higher power. If the movie monster was defeated and a happy ending achieved, Chapman would not have thought he'd made his point and showed everybody just how dangerous those darn theists are.*Spoiler* I knew Gavin would jump. He had no faith whatsoever in anything. Not in God, not in the authorities, not in anything except that Joe, self proclaimed Christian, would absolutely shoot his own wife if he did not jump. Considering how ignorant and stupid Gavin was, the bad decisions he made during the film, and his complete lack of character, him jumping not only wasn't a surprise, but was expected. This movie is definitely for atheists written and directed by an atheist. And if you're not an atheist, I highly recommend watching something else.

The film opens from the edge from a ten-story building ledge, as a cop who has just been told of his wife's infidelity attempts to save a man who has decided to jump off the building--that's a good start! The rest follows and fascinates as there are two parallel tales are simultaneously related.One of the marks of this film's fascination is that it can be read in many different ways--essentially a thriller, it is also a story that questions the nature of human love, of our place in the universe, as well as the human relationship to whatever God might be worshiped. It features some outstanding ensemble acting by a quartet of four, each of whom defines a character with both strengths and flaws...rather perversely, one waits out the film to see a possible suicide, and as Hitchcock so often implicates members of the audience as voyeurs, one feels similarly (if willingly) manipulated here.