Anyone heard anything about this?
The new movie “End of the spear” is the story of Jim Elliot and his ministry to the Mincayani tribe in South America. All I have read about it are secular reviews and they were all bad. One review of the movie told the story and then the reviewer added his own little commentary at the end that he is upset that Elliot would interfere with the tribe, and that their violance could have been attributed to other things like white people interfering. Typical multiculteralism. So my question is has anyone heard anything good or bad about it, and would anyone be interested in going to see it? Thanks!
bradlands Said,
January 23, 2006 @ 10:46
Jillian and I saw this movie on Friday night and enjoyed it. I would encourage you to go see it. I realize the controversy surrounding Chad Allen, but the way I see it Satan is using that to keep Christians away from the movie and if the Christians won’t go see this movie then the unbelievers definately won’t go see it. We watch dozens of movies every year where the actors are wretched, sinful people who promote their sin, sometimes even in the movie that we are watching. Why should the fact that the movie has a good message make us suddenly take a magnifying glass to the actors to make sure they do not live controversial lives. I am not for a second trying to justify Chad Allens sin or his person in him promoting sin. I am just saying that that sort of thing doesn’t keep most of us away from any other movie we watch, why should it keep us away from this one? If Christians showed up in force for this and box office totals were good for the movie then it would send a message to Hollywood: Brokeback mountain is not going to bring in money, a good Christian movie will. Already we have seen that successes like Passion and Chronicles of Narnia are setting a precident. I say we encourage that by supporting this movie in the theatre.
So how was the actual movie? Here is a good review which covers about everything that I thought of it. I will most likely go see it again before it leaves the theatres and it definately hightened my interest in Jim and Nates outreach to the Aucas. I am looking forward to watching the documentary that they showed clips of in the credits of “End of the Spear”, and I will add “Through gates of Splender” to my reading list. My rating for the movie: B+