An excellent and moving Christian film that will satisfy Christians, fans of Jeremy Camp and those who love movie romances.
The most obvious thing to praise in a musical bio-pic is the songs. So I'll start there. There is a reason Jeremy Camp is one of the most popular Christian artists today. His music is fantastic and it is a joy to listen to them here.
This movie tackles a subject that is hard for many Christians including myself. This is how to have faith when it is hard to understand why he is letting things happen. This film does nor sugarcoat any of this, letting the full hardness and heartbreak of these situations and the crisis in faith they can cause. We have to understand though that God can use these moments for his own good even if that seems impossible to understand. The title song (which I already liked) takes on a whole new meaning when put into the context of the true story. It is important to remember this among the large amount of Christian movies that either kind of address this issue or don't at all. Yet despite this difficultly this film helps one find the hope among the hard times and does this in a very intelligently but instantly understandable way.
Along with being a musical bio-pic and a Christian film this is also a romance. This is done extremely well. The love story is perfectly set up and extremely believable. The two leads (KJ Apa and Britt Robertson) had fantastic chemistry and it was a joy watching them share the screen. All this made the emotional scenes and the Christian message even more powerful and relatable.
"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:18
-Michael J. Ruhland
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