The Grace Card was a National Release???

This movie had a good message, but it was poorly done.  It's like that saying "real beauty is on the inside"... just as Jim Carey's character in "Liar Liar" said:  "That's only something ugly people say."  Okay, so maybe not that bad [maybe so] but I was completely STUNNED when I did a google search for "The Grace Card 10117" and realized that this movie was actually playing in New York City as well!  Then I found a review of the movie in the New York Times!

Holy crap!  Memphis just went national... and it was with THIS.

Now don't get me wrong.  The movie was good for what it was:  A story about a guy finding redemption after living a good chunk of his life with so much hate in his heart.  Already not the type of story that appeals to the masses.  You lose even more appeal when you throw in preaching, God, and Christian pop/rock band music into the mix.  By now you're probably thinking what I was thinking during the movie:  Shouldn't this have been on Lifetime, Oxygen, or TBN?

Even more reason for this to have been the case was the acting.  Aside from the main character's wife (the white lady) there was a lot of very BAD acting.  Honestly, there's better acting in ANY episode of Law and Order SVU from week to week than there was in this entire production.  Another thing that really brought me down was the music.  Those six or seven "composers" mentioned in the credits under the heading "Additional Music Composition" [or whatever it said] should have taken a LOT more time in working on this movie's soundtrack.  It could have been so much better!!!

Three parts that I can recall in particular include the first chase scene early on in the movie where the main character turns the gun on his captor [a street thug being held at gunpoint by a cop on the edge], the main character's "breakthrough", and the moment when the main character told his wife "I love you" [or something like that] in the hospital scene.  All three of these moments could have been made so much better with the power of music [and better editing... I swear, during that hospital scene I was like 'wtf?  did they really just cut away from that like that???].

And finally, one of the things that COMPLETELY turned me off about this movie was the fact that they had a flashback montage near the end of the movie.  Really!?  Are we producing films for the 1980's again??  Who does montages anymore??

Oh, and another thing:  WE GET IT, the movie was shot in MEMPHIS!  but did they have to cut away to a shot of a Memphis street or store front EVERY other SECOND???  SHEESH!

At the end of the day, the movie had a good message if you can stand the religious type story.  I CAN, so it was good to me, but for the rest of the world, I'm sure it won't go over so well.  Basically, if you can stand watching a Tyler Perry movie [or if you like Tyler Perry movies] then you'll be able to stand [absolutely love] "The Grace Card."