Review: Death Row Reformation
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2013
Puritan Warning: If you do not like fiction with something as small as minor swearing (in other words, nothing that would automatically make a movie PG-13, but only up to PG), this won't be for you. Even though it has a heavy theme of redemption.This story is very different for me, since it's not told through the perspective of a major character, but through a minor character who knows the main one's story, and is quite proud to tell it. A professional hit man, hired by a couple advocates of the porn industry (who actually liken the industry to "honest business") are sick and tired of a local pastor talking to people. Ironically, the assassin also knows of the pastor and questions their integrity, noticing that the pastor is only talking with people, never noticing any converts.When it's his turn to try off the pastor, he finds himself remembering the past and is in conflict with what the pastor's saying about God. A pretty nice picture of the metamorphosis of redemption for even the worst of the worst- an apathetic assassin who'll do any job as long as he gets paid to do it.Yet, when it's time to do it, he finds himself unable to do it and what he does gives him the unlikely title of "accidental hero" and a hero, also, on Death Row.With how the ending went, it was a rather poetic style of wording.