If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

We finally got to watch this movie, after missing it for the box office opening night. Excellent movie! I cannot believe it was done in 28 days on a $200,000 budget....just goes to show you can produce quality film without spending millions! Schools show lots of fluff, idiotic and useless movies all the time. This movie should be required viewing at every middle school and high school...not for the subdued religious tones, but for the race relations for all of us. The shot in the end was an amazing message alone. I highly recommend it for all ages. My own sons, 11 and 14 watched it with us tonight and I intend to let them watch it as many times as they want to. This one is a good one to let all the messages of the movie sink into their hearts!

Other reviews have more than adequately covered the excellence in this film. There are only a couple of observations to be made that will, hopefully, distinguish this review from being simply a rehash. I don't hold with the blithe accusation of the Mac character as being a 'racist'. After all, his son was killed by a black person so of course he's going to have strong feelings about that especially give the very strong memories that he carried for Toby years after his death. Whatever feelings there might be re "race", they played a far distant second fiddle to this. The second item of note is that the movie was shot on a Red camera! This digital beauty shows how far things have come in the digital age: it isn't obvious that this is a digitally based production. Finally, special nod needs to be given to the, yup, special features. The "making of" is itself a mini drama and Memphis is to be heartily congratulated for its unusual support, dedication and just plain unselfish giving.

I feel that some people are rating this movie too highly. And everyone is entitled to their opinions, as I am to mine. The movie, to me, was not that good of a movie, maybe it will be able to reach out more to older viewers, but I am 21 and absolutely did not like this movie. I am a Christian as well, and all Christian movies are not bad. In fact the King and I is one of my favorite movies. I could watch that over and over again, and that is almost a three hour movie if not longer. The Grace Card is a movie that I could not make it through. I gave it an hour, and due to lack of interest went to sleep. I hadn't heard of the movie until we went to the theater Saturday, and the bad thing is there were only two people in the theater at the time we went and maybe ten people at the early time. The entire movie is predictable, not going to say what happened for those who want to see it. I didn't see the trailer before the movie, but watching it after the movie I could tell the acting would be bad. Don't get me wrong, the trailer is pretty good, and would give one the thought to see the movie. Maybe One day I will be able to watch the entire movie or at least finish out the thirty minutes I went to sleep on. All in all, I would not recommend the movie. I asked the girl I went with how she liked it, and she said it was good because of the end of the movie, which again was predictable. But just think, if the end of the movie didn't end in the way it did, would it still be a good movie? I'm going to give the movie a 3. I would give it a 3.5, but they don't have that rating. I felt Grace Card was stereotypical and in some parts contradictory to Christian beliefs as well as police (who are not wearing their seat-belts in the movie). I like Christina movies but this movie was just not interesting to me. I hope this does not pursue anyone to change their minds about seeing the movie and I hope those of you that go to see it enjoy it more than I did. And if you plan to see it, you may want to do so soon, I don't believe it's going to be in theaters long.

Like others I wasn't expecting much because of the Christian theme but was really surprised. The cinematography was great. Some issues were a little too much use of depth of field and a little too much smoke in scenes. The acting was exceptional given that many are not experienced. Some of the circumstances were a little unbelievable too. Some say it was a little slow moving but that's because there's serious dialog going on and not car chases the American audience seems to relate to. The jist of the movie is about the disconnect between sitting in church and hearing some feel-good sermons and the reality of what is happening in the streets of our country. Mac could have been a carpenter, lawyer, dentist, or farmer; the lesson still fits. It is a touching story and there were people still crying as we left the theater.If it were Hollywood I would give it an 8 but extra points here for spirituality and a great job done on budget!