Road to Redemption (2001)

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Powerful

best movie i've ever seen.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Got this movie when it first came out for watching on Sabbath afternoon with our young boys. We laughed and giggled all the way through until the serious parts, then teared over when the simple gospel message is presented. It's still one of the Sabbath movies that gets thrown in to watch.Starts simple enough - when presented with the opportunity to make some quick money that wasn't hers in the first place with a heads-up for a horse race, Amanda and her boyfriend try to make a ton of money. When that failed, Amanda decides to try to get her uncle from long ago to cough up the money she needs to pay off her boss that they stole the money from.Problem after problem occurs while trying to fulfill her uncle's one request - to go fishing at a particular lake.Chased by the boss, her boyfriend, the goon and a hunter, more bad things happen but all seems to bring Amanda closer to realizing she really does need God.The basics of the movie are very much like the old Disney style home/family movies before the magic and bad plots were entered.Good for kids, good for parents.

I stumbled across this gem while late night channel surfing, entering at the scene where Amanda and Nathan take the "detour" which lands them behind a pigeon truck. I'll admit what caught my eye was Julie Condra's beauty, but the story was intriguing because I knew neither how it started nor that it was a Christian film. The bad guys were caricatures, her boyfriend was pathetic, and the medical details poorly researched (hey, I'm a doc - I notice these things!), but it was fun, engaging, and mostly well acted and well written, with a message that did not feel forced or contrived, and with what felt like a natural relationship evolution between Nathan and Amanda through the film.Perhaps the best evidence that this is a film worth watching: after it ended, I channel surfed a bit more, and came across a Girls Gone Wild adfomercial and VH1 music video. The contrast between the peaceful spirituality of the final scene in R to R and the raucous tawdriness of GGW and VH1 was stunning. I prefer the former. Much more.

"Road to Redemption," starring Pat Hingle, Wes Studi and Jay Underwood, is an above average Christian film. When compared to disgraces such as "Left Behind," this film looks like a masterpiece!3/5 stars -- a bit emotionally manipulating at times, but still a clean family Christian film.John Ulmer

This is a fair comedy that is worth taking a look at. It will not have you in stitches or rolling on the floor, but isn't bad to view once. Pat Hingle plays the charming old man he has so many times before. The lead female does an adequate job too. I walked away getting what I had expected. I feel Christians still have a long way to go in the film making industry. I found "Left Behind" to be very disappointing. If Christians want films to be used as outreach tools, they must realize that Christian movies must be of the same production quality as their secular counterparts. I originally saw this movie back when I was a Christian and found it fair. Despite my change in beliefs, my opinion of it remains unchanged.