Gerard Butler is soooooo muted in his roles as he successfully portrays a criminal, he fails to be a preacher. The movie is based on a true story of a born-again junky/inmate/abusive husband turned into a white preacher working with orphans in Sudan.
Butler is not convincing. the movie drawls on for over two hours. The ending is a bit terse in terms of the rest of the movie's flow, and we kind of get thrown for a loop as viewers.
Unless you have a particular interests in the movie's subjects, I wouldn't recommend the $10 or the two hours to sit in the theatre to watch it, unless the popcorn there is delicious and they offer a refill. Machine Gun Preacher misses the target audiences (all of them) and even fails to attract viewers with the deceptive posters depicting Butler with a machine gun in one hand and an orphan in the other. 2 out of 5 Cyclones.
-El Jefe
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