Awful just doesn't describe it

Rating: 1/10 (6 November 2006)

I don't think there really are any spoilers in here, but I'm checking the little box just in case. So read with caution if you don't want to know anything at all about the movie.
I only give this one star because 0 isn't an option. Yeah, I have not played the game. Don't care to. Won't even be tempted after wasting my time seeing the movie. The back blurb was enticing, as was the fact that one of my favorite male actors, Sean Bean, was in it. But not even Sean Bean made this worthwhile. I suppose I could have stomached the gore, even the ridiculously unbelievable, if not for the painfully unoriginal idea of fanatical "Christian" bad guys.
I am sick and tired of Hollywood demonizing Christians and the Christian faith, even if thinly disguised. It's tiring, really, and frankly, cliché. I suppose if they gave other religions equal "bad guy" time, it mightn't bother me. But a major movie that criticizes any religion or belief system other than Christian, whether Catholic or Protestant, is rare. (Note: I said rare, not non-existent.) It was frustrating to sit down to see a movie that seemed to have an interesting plot line, just to find it one more of Hollywood's Christian-bashing fests. This sort of movie only fosters hatred and anger, the same type manifested by the "Christians" in it, toward those of the Christian faith. It makes all followers of Christ look evil and irrational, and that is just silly, and untrue. I won't go further into that point because this is not the place.
Although at one point or another I wasn't 100% sure, the end really was no surprise. My husband, who fell asleep about half way through it, guessed what was going on. I might have fallen asleep as well, except the movie got me too riled for that.