just ok, not recommending it

gonna be honest here.
I found the trailer intriguing enough to make me go see this. I had done a little bit of background research about it, found it has religious origins, and sort of knew what I suspected would happen. and sad to say I was more than right.

Although the trailer stays pretty vague, it hints at the guy being the devil, and the basic premise is a retelling of the biblical story of Job's trails and faith tests. I do commend for where they went with this to be a modern take, and touch on some sci-fi technology to explain things rather than super natural powers from no where, the mistake in delivery was immediately beating us over the head with prayer and church and words on screen that resembled bible verses.This was the last thing I wanted to see. I wanted to see a wonderful version of Job, in a modern take twist, without the whole religion in your face thing. I'm not fully AGAINST religious films, but the trailer kind of kept it hidden, so I was hoping for subtle more than obvious.

I feel this very obvious approach will turn off many non-churchy types, and sink the reviews an word of mouth pretty fast.

Far as a christian film goes, this company makes pretty decent quality productions, unlike most that pop out those pointless, syrupy, low budget, low production quality crap where the parent gets cancer and dies at the end trope. THIS was unique, well filmed and lit, passable sets, sound was decent enough but dialog could have been a little clearer and cleaner sounding, acting was fine, dialog was mostly good with a few stand out crap lines.

fail points are: too much narratation. could have SHOWN more than TOLD, maybe even "explaining to a buddy" instead of just telling the audience. And it isn[t just at the start butr several times through out.
the resolve felt kind of weak but maybe this depends on personal prospective. it was kind of bland to me because.....
I didn't care too much for the characters and their plight. this might be because the initial narration immediately turned me off of the whole production, but I kept that in mind and tried to not let that bias me, but I am sure it did.

Overall, more interesting than MOST christian films I've had to sit through. Still room for that genre to improve.