Actors: Drew Waters, Ali Hillis
The Ultimate Life is the follow-up film
to The Ultimate Gift, both adapted
from the best-selling Christian books by Jim Stovall and made for nobody but
fans of the franchise. The faith-based film industry often makes these movies
with missionary attempts at saving mainstream audiences, but they make the
films in such a way that insures only an ability to preach to the choir, so to
speak. This type of insipid tale of religious affirmation hits the same notes
repetitively in an overlong screenplay and dull direction. In other words, this
film is suitable only for your religious grandmother who’s TV always seems
stuck on the Hallmark Channel.
The themes of The Ultimate Life are rather clear, repeating what was already learned
the first time around. Money cannot buy happiness. If you truly need a film
that is nearly two hours long and filled only with poorly written dialogue that
is stiffly presented by the cast to tell you that money won’t buy happiness,
this film may be able to teach you something. I imagine that this kind of
lesson will only be interesting to those who don’t need it, as is the case with
most Christian entertainment.
I don’t mean to
bash the attempts at cramming religion into the field of entertainment, but I
find it offensive when tripe like this is released. It should offend all
Christians when this type of one-dimensional entertainment is all there is to
represent them. If you used these films to judge the religious, it would lead
you to believe that anyone who believes in God is very stupid and has bad
taste.
The Blu-ray
release also comes with a digital copy to watch anywhere. The special features
include interviews with the cast, author Jim Stovall and producer Rick
Eldridge, along with a featurette, deleted scenes and a music video.
Entertainment Value:
2/10
Quality of
Filmmaking: 2/10
Historical
Significance: 2/10
Disc Features: 4/10
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