A Murder of Innocence

Well besides the poor acting and weird actor plus all the religion it could have been a 7 in ratings plot was good all else was Bad.

Movie has a good story to tell but the horrendous acting spoiled any chance of a good rating.

After a pastor (Frank Chiesurin) takes a job at an affluent assembly in the Puget Sound area, his family & congregants are rocked by homicide. Who did it? And, just as important, can they overcome the outbreak of fear? Rachel MacMillan plays the wife and Erin T. Allen the Sheriff.

Based on a true story, "A Murder of Innocence" (2018) is a crime drama with an obvious faith-based element since it involves a pastor's family and their new assembly. While clueless critics write off the biblical element as "propaganda," I found the honest communions revolving around God and faith refreshing and convincing. The movie tackles the age-old conundrum of bad things happening to good people. How do survivors overcome the invasion of evil and the tragedies thereof?

The filmmaking is on the level of a quality TV movie and I enjoyed it for what it is, a real-life crime drama involving mostly disciples of Christ. I appreciated the reverent ambiance and the honesty about how churches have to deal with things like jealousies and paranoid suspicions even while sincerely subscribing to a standard of love, which includes tough love. Really, the only flaw is that the story drags; the pace could've and should've been tightened up by about 10-15 minutes.

The protagonist, by the way, has the Clark Kent vibe down to a 'T.'

The film runs 1 hour, 43 minutes.

GRADE: C+/B-

I seriously thought it was a Spoof, or a Comedy, it really was so dreadful ! The Main male actor was some kind of Clarke Kent - to be honest, it was so bad it was hilarious !

This movie is like a car crash you can't look away from. There is no sense of Beginning, no climax and the ending is just 🤦. It's a movie based on true events in a murder in 1971 but get updated so it is in present day, but poorly. The characters have cell phones but don't use them in key scenes but use landlines for plot reasons. The movie hangs on to scenes too long. People crying at a house for a solid minute, to move into their car driving while crying, on and on. I get they want to address the stress and emotions of the characters, but that amount of scenes isn't needed if it's written or acted well, it's just filler to make the movie longer. Perfect example of this is the people from NY, walking from the airport answer their phone, hear that they are not needed so they huff and turn around and go back, and scene...why 🤷?? That scene was pointless! Nothing is gained.

But really they just made this movie for them to say how good Christian people should act though everything, they smash you over the head with their ideology, their message as heavy handed as they can. Everything else in this movie is to just get to those moments. If that is what you need, what you are looking for, that's fine, but that does not make it a good film.