A heartwarming story, but it tries to cram too many Sunday-school lessons into one sitting.

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2016)

I took my kids to see this while it was still in the theaters, and we all loved the movie. However, the miracles and tolerance lectures were so prominent that even my children thought it was a bit sappy.
The story is great, and you can't help but get a little choked up over the "Little Boy's" love and faith. So, if you go into the movie knowing that it is very moral-focused movie, you'll probably enjoy it a lot more than we did.
It was also great to see Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa again. He did the most justice to his character, and seemed to pull real emotion from the young Jakob Salvati.