The Inheritance

Sounds like a good movie right? Wrong! It's basically a lifetime movie with the guise of a Bible thumper. Very subpar acting all around from the whole cast. Writing was horrendous. The camerawork even has early punch outs and punch ins, atleast the reflections in the mirrors don't show the crew. The movie is loaded with bible verses especially ones that don't even go along with the plot. I couldn't even tell you a character name from the movie because they were so forgettable. It has the Indiana Jones loophole. If the family didn't show up at all nothing would have changed.

The plot is kind of fun, but the acting and script is so SO bad. Really. Awful. Offensively bad.

I say this as a Christian, but this film could have been ok without the religious angle. The sheer volume of Bible verses flung at the audience is overwhelming, particularly when they don't make any sense in the context. There was honestly nothing positive about this film.

It started off as comically weird, graduated to uncomfortable weird, then annoyingly weird and then became fully laughable ridiculous. I stuck it out for as long as I could, but realised not only was it bad, I just didn't care about the characters of what happened to them...

Was looking forward to seeing some of these old faces again, but I couldn't even make it past 15 minutes of this horrible plot line and bad acting, and corny bible references.

I watched this only because I thought it might be funny...it wasn't. Very cheesy and full of religious babble. Couldn't even finish watching it. Hollywood really needs to stop adding all these religious components into movies that might have otherwise been good.

Like virtually every faith-based film, this one is heavy-handed on message, and poorly written. The plot takes four disparate siblings back to their childhood-home to scatter their mother's ashes and learn of their inheritance. But the mother---being the kook that she evidently was---doesn't make it easy. Instead, she designs a bible-based scavenger hunt to force her children to unite while they search for the will. Sound promising? It is---but weak story lines, redundant bible verse, banal language, and slow pacing, bury it.

The film's redemption is delivered in the casting; Jaleel White (Mr. Shepard,) Cameron Kelly (Kasey Stryker,) and Mychala Lee (Emily,) take us from laughter to tears and remind us what it means to be part of a family. It's impossible to watch the dynamic between Kasey, Emily and Rachel---(played by Mena Suvari)---and not recognize our own family ties.

Despite the fatal writing flaws, I give this movie nine stars because of the cast, and because I'm a fan of the genre. Faith-based films are safe for the entire family, and rich in messages that we can all use---especially these days. If only they could include decent writing.