Stunning Film

Rating: 9/10 (30 April 2015)

Sandra Bullock gives the performance of a lifetime in this marvelous film based upon Lee Anne Twohy's fantastic story. Earning an Academy Award for a characterization of power and insight, Bullock shines like a super nova in a role few other actresses could convincingly play. Director John Lee Hancock masterfully brings this tale of redemption and compassion to the screen with incredible skill and beauty. This is cinema at its finest as the full potential of the art form reaches its pinnacle with a simple story that reflects heart warming humanity and self sacrifice. As Bullock's character succeeds in saving a young man from a path to spiritual destruction the audience can not help but be swept up in her mission and each viewer will find themselves with eyes filling with tears as they cheer. Here is a motion picture that proves that obscenities, nudity, sex, and violence are not required in order for a film to achieve acclaim, success, and utter greatness.