
Life as a Mormon missionary isn't what 19-year-old Brandon Allen expected: so many rules and so few successes. Los Angeles is as unrepentant as Sodom and Gomorrah. He's forced to share a small apartment with five young prank-loving missionaries and, to top it off, his first companion, 29-year-old Marcus Dalton, proves to be a harsh mentor. After only one day as a missionary, Allen is ready to hang up his necktie and go home. His point-of-view changes, however, as he begins to... (Full plot summary below)
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Life as a Mormon missionary isn't what 19-year-old Brandon Allen expected: so many rules and so few successes. Los Angeles is as unrepentant as Sodom and Gomorrah. He's forced to share a small apartment with five young prank-loving missionaries and, to top it off, his first companion, 29-year-old Marcus Dalton, proves to be a harsh mentor. After only one day as a missionary, Allen is ready to hang up his necktie and go home. His point-of-view changes, however, as he begins to see the struggles and sacrifices that the other missionaries endure: Dalton, he soon learns, is fighting a losing battle with cancer. Banks, an African-American missionary, was disowned by his family when he joined the Mormon church. Kinegar, a fifth-generation Latter-Day Saint, finds himself doubting under the intellectual attacks of anti-Mormons. Working and living with these young men, Allen becomes a part of the drama occurring under the everyday surface of missionary life. After only a few intense days, Allen finds faith he didn't know he had, and courage he didn't know he lacked. He learns that the time has come to put away childish things, and to become more than just a man--to become a man of God.
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| Los Angeles TimesKathleen CraughwellA sensitive and thoughtful probe into questions of faith and the difficulties faced by those who are called to teach others. |
| L.A. WeeklyRon StringerA fine cast of unknowns in a story of faith -- lost, found and continually challenged -- that neither romanticizes nor condescends to its milieu. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip MartinThere are several reasons a non-Mormon might want to see God's Army, and curiosity is not the least of these. |
| New York PostLou LumenickNot everyone will be comfortable with a story that's as geared toward recruitment as any Army film, be it God's or Uncle Sam's. |
| The New York TimesLawrence Van GelderEventually becomes preaching that is likely to tax the credibility of the unconverted. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAt it's best, it's a wishy-washy treatise that fails to elicit much of any reaction. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonTries to show the oh-so-human side of Gospel-hawking, His Word, the Path, and so on. |
| User ReviewMike BI just love this movie, I am glad to see (finally!) some mormon movies |
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| User ReviewBLAZE Dfirst ones good second ones better.. states of grace!! |