Golden Mind

First off, I'm a Christian, and I enjoy some Christian movies, so you can consider me unbiased. The gospel was certainly not shared in this film, and if it was, it was so forced.

Mostly the gospel was shared as "go to Church" and you'll meet a hot girl and hold hands with her. The boy who is poor, whose sister is "coughing blood" and needs medicine from the grocery store (that's definitely where you'd buy medicine for that), skips work to go pray at Church with the rich girl.

I guess the praying worked though, so who am I to judge. Because suddenly the poor boy gets rich and he gets the girl. The prosperity gospel in a nutshell, which is definitely Biblical.

The writing for this film was SO BAD. So bad. The dialogue had me laughing when I was definitely not supposed to, and if I wasn't laughing I was cringing. I couldn't watch the whole thing straight through, it was too painful.

The acting was terrible. Seth (when he wasn't being the perfect human being) was so melodramatic. Sighing, slightly pouting instead of his regular deadpan look. I'm sure he sighed five hundred times in the film for no reason, and when he should have sighed he didn't. No one ever acted naturally.

The soundtrack was terrible, and half the time it made no sense to the plot.

Also, the Golden Nugget restaurant? I get that the name is supposed to be symbolic, but it just sounded funny to me.

The only good part in the film was the nature settings, which get 10/10 because God made them. And the wind that was blowing, because sometimes it was loud enough to drown out the dialogue and I really appreciated that. Combine these two and the film gets one star instead of zero.