Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Unconditional is a dramatic film based on a true story revolving around the struggle of the main character Sam (Lynn Collins), and her struggle with life after her husband Billy (Diego Klattenhoff) was murdered and robbed in an alley. Sam struggled to fight back her inner demons and attempted to commit suicide when all of the sudden she heard a scream coming from a nearby street. After approaching the street, Sam sees a little girl named Keisha (Gabriella Phillips) struck by a car while her brother Macon (Kwesi Boakye) was screaming in fear that she might not be alive. Sam rushes to the hospital with the little girl and she survived with minor injuries. It was later found out that Keisha and Macon were roaming the streets late at night to steal food due to their extreme hunger. While at the hospital, Sam is re-united with her childhood best friend Joe. I personally love the scene where they re-united and the audience could see the surprise in the actor's eyes. Joe tells Sam they should hangout and catch up sometime soon. A few days later, Sam goes to visit Joe where she discovers he helps mentor kids in the hood to prevent them from making mistakes in life. The kids grew on Sam and she finally found hope in life. The kids were invited to Sam's farm to meet her horse, dance, eat and stay the night. Alike to Sam, Joe had a dark past. Joe was in prison for 8 years due to hacking into a bank. While in prison, Joe was stabbed with a shank. Ever since being stabbed, Joe needs a daily kidney dialysis. While at the barn, Joe collapsed in his guest room due to his kidneys failing and was immediately rushed to the hospital. The doctors stated that Joe may not survive because his body may reject the kidney transplant. There was also a possibility that Joe could die before the kidney arrives. Sam had lost her husband and she feared the worst that she could lose her best friend. Sam became full of rage and anger over her life so she went after the man who she had though killed her husband wanting revenge. Some positive things I thought about this film would be the setting. I love how the setting transitions from the worst parts of the hood to a beautiful farm and I love how it shows the reaction of the children when they get to experience nature like they never have before. I also loved the story and found it inspiring on so many levels that Sam went through the death of her husband and managed to cope with it and make herself happy. I enjoyed that the actors went from having nothing to being extremely happy. Sam was on the brink of death with depression but she found hope in life. The kids Macon and Keisha didn't have someone to look up to except for Joe but they found Sam. Everyone in the film went from a low point in their life to having a family. There are also some negative things about the film. The transition into flashbacks when Sam would think back to when her husband had been alive tended to be hard to indicate. I would be watching a scene not knowing it was even a flashback and confused on why she was talking to her husband when he had passed away. Another negative side of the film would be the mood. I feel as if the movie was sad until the ending. The movie starts off with Sam's husband dying and her trying to commit suicide then transitions into Keisha getting hit by a car and lastly transitions to Joe on his dialysis machine. Throughout the movie all the actors did was face struggles and there's a lack of happiness and hope. I loved the characters and how they fit into the movie. I was always on the edge of my seat when a character's secrets or past would get revealed. I was very surprised when I had seen that Joe had to go to prison for 8 years but he still manages to be such a positive guy. It was also nice to see that after Keisha went through her mom's death, she began to talk again after going to the farm. I enjoyed the way the actors portrayed the characters as well. Kwesi Boakye did a great job at playing Macon and acting like a bad kid and bad sibling when in reality he was a nice kid. Lynn Collins in my opinion looked like the original person the true story is based off of so she was the perfect match for the role. In my opinion I thought this was a unique movie. If it wasn't based on a true story, I'd think it was an average film that was decent but the fact that this movie is based on a true story makes it breathtaking. I enjoyed the setting and characters more than most movies I watch. If I could rate Unconditional out of 10 I'd give it a 7.5/10.

This was an inspiring and emotional movie, with twists and turns and heartwarming moments. Sam the main character. Her husband gets shot and she is about to kill herself, until a little girl gets hit by a car and that changes things for Sam when she is at the hospital with the girl, that is when she meets up with the other main character Joe who is her old friend when they were friends and she changes from them on. Some things I liked about the movie was how Sam acted with the kids how well she god along with them and she kind of took them in and worked with them and made them happier children. The setting in the farm was beautiful and made me feel happy. The music in the movie was kind of not what I expected it was just weird and I did not like it that much. I loved all the characters I think they played there roles really well and they made the movie dramatic. I can honestly rate this movie 10 stars I loved how the movie played out and how emotional it was, how it made you feel warm inside to see how there are good people in the world and how well they work together.

The film," Unconditional "was one that would many heartstrings. There are many serious topics that are shown throughout the movie such as suicide, homicide, hit and runs, robbery, and death. A bit more on the movie is that there are two kids who are suffering in the projects of Nashville, Tennessee who are living with their Grandmother. The characters are become linked in life by a series of unfortunate events. The things I ended up enjoying from the movie is the fact that there are so many amazing lessons to learn. Another thing from the movie was the intensity of the beginning that brings your full attention to movie. Tying in the settings of The Projects into the movie was good to show a piece of what other lives are like. Having all the kids living under a single parent household shows the hardship of what some of the kids go through. Bits and pieces of the music didn't tie into the movie when it was starting to go into more serious topics. Another part that bothered me with the music was that at some parts it just seemed to cheesy. One more thing about the movie was that there were so many flashbacks for each character so at times it was hard to follow. Some of the flashbacks were a bit difficult to tie into the rest of the movie until later on. The actor for the adult Samantha Crawford seemed a bit awkward throughout the movie until the end of it. The child actor in the flashbacks seemed to have more life behind her compared to the adult. The actor for Joe Bradford seemed very spot on both with the child actor in the flashbacks and during the present times. He was very good with acting with the given circumstances he was given as a character. The film was a fantastic movie to watch given the difficulty to watch it at times. I enjoyed it all the way to the end. I would definitely recommend this movie to others to watch.

In the heartwarming movie unconditional, The main character Sam loses her husband, because a homeless man murdered him. Sam was very depressed and drove to the city to kill herself right where her husband had been shot. A boy (Macon) and his sister (Keisha) ran across the street. The little girl got hit by the car, and Sam ran out to save her and call 911. The morning after when Papa Joe came to check in on Keisha, Sam noticed that they grew up together and had been best friends. Sam and Papa Joe became friends again and started working with kids that lived in the projects, giving them food/water and playing games with them. One day they decided to take the kids out to Sams farm. After playing all day and going on hay rides. Papa Joe forgot to do his paralysis since he had been bitten by a snake when he was younger. Macon ran downstairs to ask him a question and found him bleeding out on the hardwood floor. The rushed Papa Joe to the hospital and he ended up getting a kidney transplant because his body rejected the paralysis. Sam decided to grab her gun and try to find and kill the man that killed her husband. The man Sam suspected to kill her husband wasn't the killer. She later found out that he was the man that tried to help her husband and then ran because he knew he would be blamed for the murder. Sam later then accepted the fact that her husband was gone forever and moved on to continue helping the kids and Joe. When Joe was healed, all the kids and adults went to see the grave of Sam's husband. In the end, Sam started living life again and writing child books. I think this movie brings out the true character of people and shows how big of a heart they have. One thing I like best about the movie is that Joe gave up his whole career to make sure that kids grew up healthy and were raised right. I also liked the setting of the Beautiful farm and showing kids how life used to be. One thing I didn't like was the music they used, I thought it was a little cheesy. Another thing I didn't like was the fact that Sam and Joe didn't end up together. I think that the characters played their roles very well. Every character matched their backgrounds and where they lived. Especially, Sam, she was a country girl who lived out on a farm, drove an old farm truck, and rode horses. I didn't like how T acted like he was a hard-ass instead of showing who he truly is. T is a caring person who is willing to help people out when they need it. He helps fix peoples cars, and he tried to help Billy when he was shot by the homeless man. All in the end if you have a big heart and you like movies with a happy ending, and helping out you're local community and children, then you will like unconditional.