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First Sunday
Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for.
Release : | 2008 |
Rating : | 4.6 |
Studio : | Cube Vision, |
Crew : | Production Design, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Ice Cube Katt Williams Tracy Morgan Loretta Devine Michael Beach |
Genre : | Action Comedy |
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Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
This movie truly exceeded my original expectations.Okay, maybe not "exceeded", but it certainly wasn't as terrible as I thought it was going to be, although close.I had rented this movie a couple of weeks ago, along with several other films, and never hearing about or any mention of it I thought it was going to be one of the more unforgettable films I'd have sat through.After watching it, however, I was proved wrong.The first half of the movie seemed somewhat difficult to laugh through, and contained a lot of badly-played-through jokes, but the second half completely redeemed it, in a way. I was consistently cracking up over and over. Ice Box and Tracy Morgan acted well all the way through, but I must say, Katt Williams' performance was absolutely, comp-uhletely astounding. I would watch the movie over and over just because he's in it.Overall, this odd dramedy of an awkward story happens to be a casual, fun, and even compelling movie that I would definitely request for you to see in your spare time.
This movie was like that one paper you wrote in high school. You stayed up all night working on it, but still could only pull out a C+..I don't know why this movie needs to be about white or black (say some of the peeps reviewing it) or if you rate it low you're a bigot or if you really like it, you're a minister @ a church etc.... I'm white and I enjoyed it, just not enough to give it a 9 or 10. And while I love Tracy Morgan, Kat Williams and I-Cube.. I thought the plot was not that interesting and the funny moments were few and far between.. Sure, it had its redeeming values.. but the movie didn't know whether to be a comedy or a redemption flick. So it tried to be both..The one part I absolutely loved and that really touched me was when Tracy's character says that he had never had a birthday celebration because the foster care place lost his birth certificate. Wow.. Talk about sad.. I actually almost started crying, because it was so emotional and I had never heard of anyone not celebrating a birthday ever.
This movie was not entertaining in the least. It was quite bad, but I wouldn't call it one of the worst films I've seen. In this movie, Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan play two semi losers, whom keep getting in trouble with the law. Cube's ex is planning to move his son out of state because she can't afford the house payments. She owes thousands. Cube comes up with a brilliant idea to rip of a church to pay her bills to keep his son close by. He gets help with his rather dysfunctional partner, Morgan, whom one could call Tweedle Dumb. They hold some of the church members hostage only to find out someone has already stolen money from the church. They try to find out who has the money while trying not to feel so guilty talking to his son. As one would expect, the two realize ripping of a church is not such a good idea and it takes a lot of friends to get off on hostage charges. Is the money found, does Cube get to keep his son nearby. I say who cares because this movie has no surprising twists.FINAL VERDICT: Terrible, don't know how it even got made.
First Sunday was one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. It will have you laughing throughout the whole movie. It also had some great meaning and a great message as well. The acting was very good as well. I think that Tracy Morgan is the funniest actor out in movies today. I thought that the story of them robbing a church though was not a good message and not thought through that well. After they tried robbing the church though at the end the movie taught you a great message. I think that all ages can also love this movie. Some of the funny parts in this movie almost made me fall on the floor laughing. I don't think I have scene to many movie that were as funny as this movie. All and all this movie was great. It was sad, funny and had a great message to it about GOD always giving you a second chance in life. That is true to that GOD does give everyone a second chance. I don't think that this movie was all about GOD either it was mostly a comedy. It was very funny at several different scenes. I think Tracy Morgan is very funny. I do understand why people don't like this movie. Most people will probably think that it was stupid. Some will think why in the world would you make a story about two people robing a church. In my opinion it was good they made a movie like this. It was very original if you ask me. Well anyways just see this movie and see what you think. It's not as bad as people make it sound.