Good concept, poorly executed.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The new Kendrick Brothers' film "The War Room" is a humor-filled Christian movie that provides the inspiration message of the power of prayer. It stars first-time actress in Priscilla Shirer,who happens to be a Christian preacher, together with former football player-turned actor,T.C. Stallings.The story primarily deals with the husband-and-wife Elizabeth and Tony Jordan,who works as real estate agent and pharmaceutical salesman,that are currently undergoing marital problems.Tony is introduced to be verbally abusive husband particularly to his wife and works a lot to the point of not spending much time with his his child Danielle.Then,Elizabeth deals with a client named Clara in one of her house sales.Clara introduces to Elizabeth having a closet room wherein he spends time with God in prayer and tells her the importance of having a relationship with God.Elizabeth takes this message and begins to form a closet room of her own at her own and she starts doing her prayers as well as having a relationship with God in order to save their marriage and to address her marital difficulties particularly her relationship with Tony.Things begin to change in the process that made Tony become a better person both as a husband and a father.The End!!!No question that it definitely provides the viewer an inspiration message of prayer and having a relationship with God.The movie tells the viewer that prayer is extremely necessary in times of trials and challenges.This will turn off some viewers particularly non-Christians and people who do not believe in the power of prayer.These same people may view the transformation of Tony as unrealistic considering that he changed simply from being verbally abusive and adulterous to becoming a loving husband as well as a caring father only through the prayers that Elizabeth and Clara have made in their respective closet rooms.These same viewers want to see more such as Tony and Elizabeth go through marriage counseling and numerous dialogues to commit to their marriage.To them,prayer wound not be the simple solution to their marital problems and difficulties.Besides,was prayer enough too to make Elizabeth a more understanding wife?Being a Christian,I personally believe that prayer is an effective spiritual weapon.No question that lifting our personal battles to God is already a lot through prayer.Fellow Christians like me will definitely appreciate it.They will be inspired to pray and check their own relationship with God.It will also give them hope especially in tough and challenging times.Just what I have stated,prayer is a powerful spiritual weapon that may take care of our problems even worse than what Elizabeth was facing in this movie.It will also renew their trust and faith in God.

I am not a Christian but i believe immensely in God and this movie took my breathe away literally. I loved every minute of it. It touches base with so many adversities we have to face in life each day, some more than others but it was so inspiring. The power of prayer. Christian or not this movie helps teach and train the mind to disregard things that don't matter, things that tarnish our minds, our brains, our actions and relationships and it helps us to focus on what is important and how to receive inner healing. My gosh really really loved this movie, have to watch it again. Thank you to all for the beautiful story line, the directors, producers, actors/actresses and all those who help bring this sentiment to life.

It is remarkable how polarized the reviews of this movie have been: lots of 1-2 stars, denouncing it as religious propaganda, and lots of 9-10s, praising it as a touching and theologically enlightening masterpiece. In reality, I'd say it's neither. It's just a rather mediocre movie with Christian themes. There is nothing wrong with filming a movie from a Christian perspective, so War Room deserves no criticism for emphasizing such things as prayer and forgiveness. But it needs to be frankly admitted that War Room is overly optimistic about these things. Its message seems to be that if we will only adopt these virtues, all the problems in our lives will evaporate overnight. This is not only untrue, it is even unchristian. It was to his own followers that Jesus said "in this world you will have trouble." Yes we should pray and ask God for relief when we are in distress, but God may say no. He may have reasons - which he is under no obligation to reveal- for allowing pain, and it is bad theology to think of him like some sort of vending machine, dispensing blessing for the cost of enough prayer.If War Room were merely too optimistic, then I would not give it such a low rating. Lots of stories are too optimistic in their own ways. But War Room also suffers from, well, being a bad movie. The pace of the movie drags, with scene after scene filled with lengthy and often unnecessary dialogue. And while I understand that a movie with spiritual themes might have characters crying now and then, far FAR too much screen time is devoted to these emotional breakdowns in War Room. Particularly towards the end of the movie, it seems as though every scene which advances the plot is accompanied by two more which do nothing but show characters weeping over their past mistakes. This might be forgivable if the characters of War Room were interesting, but unfortunately they are all rather generic and predictable. I would really like to see quality Christian movies produced. I do consider prayer and forgiveness to be virtues, and I want to see them glorified through drama. However, War Room is not up to the task. Though a Christian myself, I found it to be both shallow and uninteresting. I can hardly blame the secular reviewers for their harshness to it.

War Room captivated me when I first saw it in theaters this film has a very powerful message which is Prayer is a powerful weapon and can change people this message displayed throughout the film really puts your thinking cap on. the characters such as Elizabeth Jordan and Clara Williams really had a big impact on the emotions of the film and I admit it made me cry (in a good way) not only it makes you cry but makes you laugh with the humor many characters had within the film. Overall War Room was definitely a amazing and powerful film that will have you laughing and crying and overjoyed in the message in the film and i would definitely say War Room is a movie worth seeing for all ages