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Review: Machine Gun Preacher

Machine Gun Preacher
Machine Gun Preacher: with a title like that, you'd expect a Grindhouse-esque, ultra-violent B-movie about a muscle-bound preacher with ripped sleeves, standing atop a pile of bodies, brandishing a huge gun, maybe with a cigar hanging out of his mouth, topped off with a killer catchphrase. "Pray for mercy," he'd say. Or something like that.

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2 comments.
Phyllis
Posted by Phyllis at 22:43 on 02/11/11
Love the Cheech pic, too LOL
Phyllis
Posted by Phyllis at 22:43 on 02/11/11
God knows I love me some Gerard Butler, and I do love it when he can really dig into a great role because he can be crazy awesome in the right roles... It's unfortunate that this film could not have been made longer, or cut in a way that we could fully appreciate this person's conversion as well as the deeper questions this film poses. I would probably lay the blame for this with the studio-- undoubtedly some suit back at the studio decided the public would rather see GB being a badass and blowing people away than actually digging in to what are some deep spiritual questions.

I do love it, though, that Gerard Butler is willing to take some risks, and maybe we'll have seen the end of his run in rom-coms.
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