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An unhinged man metes out his own form of justice when a surgeon chooses another girl over his girlfriend for a lifesaving heart transplant.
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| Jam! MoviesLiz BraunAct of God fearlessly approaches the natural and the supernatural, and the result is visceral, intellectual, heartbreaking, delightful and instructive, all at once. |
| Village VoiceElla TaylorBaichwal is the least judgmental of interviewers, which is a double-edged sword when the solemn testimony ("I had come to meet me") induces a barely resistible urge to laugh. |
| Boston GlobeMark FeeneyThe film doesn't need a narrator, since the people whose accounts we hear speak so absorbingly. All talking heads should talk so articulately. |
| JWRS. James WeggThanks to filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, the after effects of these 1-in-700,000-odds' strikes are brought into horrifically mesmerizing view and accompanied by a music track ... that magically reinforces the storytelling. |
| The Tyee (British Columbia)Dorothy WoodendFor a documentary that's ostensibly about people being struck by lightning, it's a quiet and deeply philosophical treatise, filled with subtle grace and mortal agonies, often occurring side by side. |
| Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierThe wishy-washy rotation of characters strands us in the center of the film's complex topic without much aside from useless meditation on the fierce numinousness of nature to keep us company. |
| VarietyRonnie ScheibNeither filtered through nor structured around another artist's work, and suffers from the lack of a unifying vision, its parts greater than the whole. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirAn undeniably provocative head-trip, laced with the most spectacular lightning-storm footage I've ever seen. |
| Film Comment MagazineChris Chang[Jennifer] Baichwal's point of view is not religious; in fact, the strength and beauty of her project resides in its stubborn insistence on agnostic fuzziness. |
| User ReviewBevan SBeautifully shot meditation on the nature of electricity as personified through lightning and man's relationship to it - it's about lightning, sure, but also about reinvention, death, God, and the brain. |