Machine Gun Preacher

Hope is the greatest weapon of all

The second biopic this week deals with a different kind of wild life. An ex-biker-gang member finds religion and makes the life-changing decision to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war. He is outraged by the unspeakable horrors faced by the region's vulnerable populace, especially the children. Ignoring the warnings of more experienced aide workers, he breaks ground for an orphanage where it's most needed: in the middle of territory controlled by the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a renegade militia that forces youngsters to become soldiers before they even reach their teens. He finds himself having to balance preaching with using fighting skills from his biker days.

128 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Violence, Drug abuse).
Action, Biographical, Crime, Drama.

Suffer the little children to come unto me ...

Credits

Cast	Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Kather Baker, Michael Shannon, Madeline Carroll, Souleymane Sy Savane
Director	Marc Forster
Screenplay	Jason Keller
Music	Asche & Spencer, Thad Spencer
Cinematography	Roberto Schaefer
Editing	Matt Chesse
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2011
Produced by	Relativity media, Virgin Produced, Apparatus Productions, GG Filmz, 1984 PDC, Mpower Pictures, ITS Capital, Merlina Entertainment, Moonlighting Films, Safady Entertainment

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Action, drama
Language	Strong, infrequent
Nudity	None
Sex	Brief, in context
Violence	Strong, frequent
Prejudice	Brief, infrequent
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Strong, occasional
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Debashine Thangevelo Preacher man shoots blanks - and misses.	4
Die Burger Paul Boekkooi Bekeerde boef se hulp in Afrika ontroer én verdeel.	10
Cape Times Kirk Honeycutt Preaching to the unconvinced.	10
Box Office Pete Hammond The strong Christian elements in the film almost make it seem as if it was intended to be a faith-based movie, but these filmmakers go way beyond the simplistic or saccharine. Machine Gun Preacher delivers a riveting account of one flawed man's efforts to bring humanity and the grace of Heaven to hell-on-earth.	15
ScreenIt C. Fuchs Machine Gun Preacher might have benefitted more from a carefully aimed rifle approach instead.	9
Metacritic.com 32 critics	9
Rottentomatoes critics 103 critics	10
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer There's a complex man at the center of Machine Gun Preacher but the movie is too shapeless and emotionally vacant to bring his story to life.	6
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	10
Movie Review Intelligence 39 critics	8
What the People say
Internet 1710 Netizens Heart Wrenching and Poignant	13
Average .. 47%	9