So first off, the guy behind me fell asleep (he was snoring and breathing loudly), the guy to my right got up and left 3/4 of the way through, the woman to my left fell asleep and the woman in front of me fell asleep.
Almost every blackout in the film people were disappointed that there was more content when it faded back up.
During the Q&A section, the audience was like a block of ice. The filmmakers didn't say much to break it.
Overall, it was a decent film, but not made very well and largely forgettable. Animation was used for parts they didn't have footage for, but it would have been better to style it like Tintin. There was a supplemental reader out in the lobby that, missed opportunity, they should have made look like a Tintin book.
No disrespect to the guy who died (allegedly), but the film seemed very pro-Jesus with only a few dissenters from that theorem who were also pro-Jesus. It didn't do a great job at portraying both sides. I am not quite sure what the message was. "Don't following dogmatic religious zealotry?" "Believe what's in your heart even if it kills you?" I just don't know. A very odd choice for NatGeo to pick this up, but they're becoming a bit like Netflix.
The content leading up to the end just wasn't presented interestingly enough. It explored this isolated foreign culture but I wasn't quite sure why I was watching it or why it was important.
If you want to see a better story of a missionary, go see "The Book of Mormon." Not even kidding. It's a lot more balanced in perspective than whatever I just saw was.
Also, the title really should have been called "The Missionary." Its current title is too wracked with ingrained spy/espionage tropes, or elicits "Mission Impossible" sentiments. I was quite disappointed we weren't watching a good spy movie with lots of explosions, but I didn't really look into what this was until I got there.
Jesus.
Almost every blackout in the film people were disappointed that there was more content when it faded back up.
During the Q&A section, the audience was like a block of ice. The filmmakers didn't say much to break it.
Overall, it was a decent film, but not made very well and largely forgettable. Animation was used for parts they didn't have footage for, but it would have been better to style it like Tintin. There was a supplemental reader out in the lobby that, missed opportunity, they should have made look like a Tintin book.
No disrespect to the guy who died (allegedly), but the film seemed very pro-Jesus with only a few dissenters from that theorem who were also pro-Jesus. It didn't do a great job at portraying both sides. I am not quite sure what the message was. "Don't following dogmatic religious zealotry?" "Believe what's in your heart even if it kills you?" I just don't know. A very odd choice for NatGeo to pick this up, but they're becoming a bit like Netflix.
The content leading up to the end just wasn't presented interestingly enough. It explored this isolated foreign culture but I wasn't quite sure why I was watching it or why it was important.
If you want to see a better story of a missionary, go see "The Book of Mormon." Not even kidding. It's a lot more balanced in perspective than whatever I just saw was.
Also, the title really should have been called "The Missionary." Its current title is too wracked with ingrained spy/espionage tropes, or elicits "Mission Impossible" sentiments. I was quite disappointed we weren't watching a good spy movie with lots of explosions, but I didn't really look into what this was until I got there.
Jesus.