The Favorite

Not very often do you connect with a movie like this! This movie opened my eyes to how MY brother probably felt growing up. I was the 3 sport athlete that excelled and he was the younger brother who struggled to make the team. My folks showed up at most of my games yet my brother never knew if he was even going to start. I feel I need to reach out to my brother to apologize.

The movie was entertaining, well written and contained great action scenes. I knew the background of Luke Bernard, to realize that it was HE who was in the near death accident yet was able to not only write this screenplay, but co-produce it AND be the lead actor, obviously this was a miracle and God does have a purpose for him, and it might be more than just this movie!

Well done, and thank you!

We all understand that imdb is now flooded with fake reviews - but it's that it's so obvious. This is NOT a 10-star movie. Even if you place ridiculous amounts of importance on the faith-based contrived background. It's a nice story... it's got a nice message. The acting is... well, it will do. The dialog is rather wooden and forced. The message is delivered in the usual ham-handed way these movies tend to be. If you're not one of those people that almost exclusively seeks out this kind of propaganda-lite material, you'e wasting your time. You will find it hokey and even embarrassing to get through at times.

This movie stinks. There is not one good part of the movie. There is not one good quality actor in this movie. This was painfully bad. It was so frustrating to watch. Oh my goodness, I cannot stress how bad this is. Yikes.

I was most awed by the story behind the story and how the true life experience of Luke Bernard was woven into his screenplay--which was a second, unique story in itself. Bravo!

I'm obviously in the minority here but I just found this faith-based film to be quite awkward and strained in its presentation, with quite a lot of stilted dialogue and acting.

We see in the closing credits that the movie is actually based on the miraculous recovery, from an auto accident, of Luke Benjamin Bernard, who stars in the film and also wrote the screenplay. However in the film itself, Matthew Fahey portrays Luke with Bernard in the role of his brother Ben.

There's also a concurrent theme here of a brother's deep resentment that his father was constantly favoring his sibling. I felt the movie handled this healing process in a heartfelt manner.

Overall, faith-based films are not usually my cup of tea, but as one can see other reviewers found more in this movie than I could.