Monday, July 11
Review: Saved!
Saved! is alternately too contrived or not vicious enough. The characters aren't all convincing in their sins or their zeal, and sometimes it just feels like the film is a moral parable masquerading as a movie; a dumbed down liberal version of a Jack Chik rant against the perils of fundamentalism. We get it: "Why would God make us all so different," asks Mary," if he wanted us to be the same?"
If the worst Saved! can point out is that Christian fundamentalism makes everyone boring, then that's a very mild chastisement indeed. [MORE]
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posted by Mike Tresca at
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