Guns & Moses

Came across this little gem and felt like I had to say something! This movie is really unique, and ways in on many important themes, including race, racism, and self-reliance, aside from being a really fun thriller! Great acting all around, and kudos to the leads. Also wonderful seeing Christopher Lloyd again. Definitely check it out!

Guns & Moses opens strong. The first act establishes Rabbi Mo's community with genuine warmth, and Mark Feuerstein brings earnest charm to the role. Christopher Lloyd and Neal McDonough add professional weight to the ensemble. The premise promises innovative B-grade fun: a rabbi forced to pick up firearms.

Then reality hits. Rabbi Mo Plays Detective, Not Rambo

Act Two stretches nearly an hour with procedural investigation... Rabbi Mo driving his minivan, uncovering solar energy corruption, playing detective rather than action hero. It's competently executed but fundamentally misrepresented. Only the final 10-15 minutes deliver the advertised gunslinging.

Here's the frustration: the detective work isn't bad, but it's not what the poster sold. The screenplay becomes convoluted, dialogue turns exposition-heavy, and structural bloat kills momentum. The solar mirror field sequence shows what could've been.

6.5/10: Trim twenty minutes of mystery, frontload more action, and you'd have the entertaining genre piece audiences expected instead of this well-intentioned bait-and-switch.

I debated between a 7.5 and an 8. But decided to rate it as 8 here.

This movie is how Jewish representation should be done. You can tell a good story with a relatable hero and let them be Jewish. Rabbi Mo is a delightful character and a good Rabbi, here for his people, supporting his community, and willing to be there for others and counsel them. But he's flawed, he's insecure, and he finds confidence in his family, and in some unlikely places and circumstances.

It is full of Jewish love, and when appropriate, some Jewish humor. It is a movie about perception and about how to protect oneself in times of trouble.

Merecedes Mason and Alona Tal were amazing. Great characters all around and the mystery had some great twists.

It is also one of the few movies that had a diversity of Jewish characters, secular and religious, without portraying either one as bad or wrong.

Its biggest flaw, I think, was the pacing; a couple of scenes felt rushed, and some rough cinematography. But that doesn't distract too much from an otherwise strong film and Jewish Representation.

Guns & Moses delivers something I've been craving for a long time: a Jewish action hero who isn't a punchline or a historical victim, but a full-on badass. It's unapologetically modern, sharp, and proudly rooted in culture.

The writing is smart, the action is fun, and the lead character brings a refreshing new face to the hero archetype. There's something incredibly powerful about seeing a Jewish protagonist take center stage, not in a story about suffering, but one about strength, defiance, and wit.

If you're looking for a film that flips expectations and carves out a new space for Jewish representation in genre cinema, Guns & Moses is it.

I very much wanted to like this to support the people and studio behind it but the writing is just not where it needs to be. The thing felt like a B grade direct to video release. Its got some great talent, great actors in it but the lead , the protagonists is just not believable at all and comes across as cheesy. Actors like Christopher Lloyd, Ed Quinn and especially and Neal McDonough deliver but the lead played by Mark Feurenstein just fails and badly.