You won't be disappointed!

Sadly Over-hyped

Lack of good storyline.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Begins as a seemingly great movie with good acting and filming. As the plot unfolds, the political agenda becomes increasingly forceful and painful.

Totally Rubbish ... Don't waste one minute of your life watching that movie! If you do ... well don't say that I didn't advise you!

There is a scene in the later half of the movie that is as jarring and surrealist as it is impactful, while also framing a scene that occurs at the end of the movie. The whole movie builds on itself, as the viewer watches one man driven to radicalism. Ethan Hawke gives the performance of a lifetime as Reverend Toller, the focus of the film. Though his performance is restrained throughout, Hawke is still able to communicate existential despair and righteous fury perhaps as well as it has been done. Seyfried and Kyles are well cast in their supporting roles, but the focus is entirely on Hawke, and he delivers and then some. First Reformed is a character study if there ever was one, and the pace purposely extremely methodical to show the slow burn from a dedicated man of the faith to one who has decided that he can no longer trust the institutions he has served under for so long. First Reformed has a lot to say (the intersection of commercialism and faith, the church's role in environmentalism, society's tendency to gravitate to radicalism), but it manages to present all of those weighty themes in a way that will have the viewer thinking about this movie long after they've left the cinema. Haunting, impactful, and unforgettable, First Reformed is essential viewing.

It started with an atmospheric mood that was somehow reminiscent of Fargo (the movie, not the series) - there was that bleak sense of small town simplicity that was almost funny without really being funny. It seemed almost pathetic but the sense of 'plain-ness' was somehow gripping, somehow drew me in and made it watchable. As another reviewer put it, there was a shift to the surreal later on that just seemed out of place. It was like we went from a more tragic Fargo feel to a Life Of Pi feel rather unexpectedly. This broke the mood that had been building irreparably (for me). The ending scene reminded me of an indie film called "Last Night" which was a movie about how ppl chose to spend their last day at the end of the world. I was somewhat dissatisfied with the ending in this case though. Overall, I would still recommend this movie for the better parts, the thought provoking subject matter, though a true Christian wouldn't find anything useful here.