The general premise of this film presents us with a variation on the evil child where instead of being the antichrist or possessed, the viewer is posed with the question, "Is he god?"
It takes a loooong time to get there, but this movie leverages the philosophical implications of that concept in an interesting way. We finally get some weighty theological debates around the 90-minute mark just before the film nose-dives straight through what should've been it's climax and into a half-hour plot twist that undermines all the hard work the film did up to that point.
Without giving anything away, this plot twist is just a simple variation on one of the most hated, most parodied, most insulting plot twists in TV and film. A twist that, in spite of how much nearly everyone hates it, continues to pop up in serious (non-parody) projects with baffling frequency.
It ends up feeling like the filmmakers wanted to explore theology from a critical vantage and either backpedaled out of fear or were otherwise order to by some meddling producer. Either way, the film loses its bite, its meaning, its power, and its quality.
It takes a loooong time to get there, but this movie leverages the philosophical implications of that concept in an interesting way. We finally get some weighty theological debates around the 90-minute mark just before the film nose-dives straight through what should've been it's climax and into a half-hour plot twist that undermines all the hard work the film did up to that point.
Without giving anything away, this plot twist is just a simple variation on one of the most hated, most parodied, most insulting plot twists in TV and film. A twist that, in spite of how much nearly everyone hates it, continues to pop up in serious (non-parody) projects with baffling frequency.
It ends up feeling like the filmmakers wanted to explore theology from a critical vantage and either backpedaled out of fear or were otherwise order to by some meddling producer. Either way, the film loses its bite, its meaning, its power, and its quality.