I couldn't finish it. I rarely bail on a movie, but I bailed on this one. The acting was poor, but it didn't matter because the characters were stereotypical and not at all nuanced. The villainous canal riff-raff were painted as comically evil. The plot and dialog were trite.
I don't mind a movie with sentiment or religious elements, but this seemed like pure propaganda to me. I felt like I had been tricked into watching what I had hoped would have been an interesting historical dramatization of life in New York's "Burned Over District" in the first half of the nineteenth century.
In short, if you are a Mormon yourself and not too discriminating about what makes a good movie, you might like it. I don't think anyone else will.
I don't mind a movie with sentiment or religious elements, but this seemed like pure propaganda to me. I felt like I had been tricked into watching what I had hoped would have been an interesting historical dramatization of life in New York's "Burned Over District" in the first half of the nineteenth century.
In short, if you are a Mormon yourself and not too discriminating about what makes a good movie, you might like it. I don't think anyone else will.