A Sinner's Prayer

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Audience Member I hesitate to call <i>A Sinner's Prayer</i> the worst movie ever made, but it was certainly a chore to get through. I can't describe to you the sense of elation I felt when I realized that the DVD was so poorly produced that although the runtime was 2 hrs. 30 min., the movie actually ends after two hours. Oh, but those two hours! Of course I'm aware that I have the ability to turn off the DVD player at any time, but I imagined myself as a modern-day Joel Robinson, locked in front of the television and forced to watch terrible movies in order to see how long it takes to be driven completely mad. The movie opens with a drug deal gone wrong. Our hero(?) Miles Ramsey is a gangsta living the high life. He makes tens of thousands of dollars selling cocaine, has implied sex with any woman he desires, and callously murders those who get in his way. But first - a message from a preacher. Yes, as the story is just getting started, the movie cuts to a preacher going on and on about Revelations and whatnot for, I kid you not, like ten minutes. It doesn't help that the acoustics in the church make his babbling impossible to understand and that there is some kind of rap beat being played over the scene. In fact, most of the movie is drowned out by rap beats. I'm pretty sure that the film was shot with somebody's home video camera, and the sound quality is so bad that there are a few characters whose voices are just never audible. You watch Miles listening intently to one of the guys in his crew, but can't make out a word that the guy is saying. I have to assume that <i>A Sinner's Prayer</i> was financed largely by the people who are in the movie, and so the expensive houses and cars are most likely their ACTUAL homes instead of sets. Why do these people have the time and money to make such a crappy movie. Many scenes go alternately in slo-mo and fast-motion for no particular reason, and director Gary Davis has no concept of editing technique, since he lets many unimportant scenes last too long and cuts others too soon. At one point, this <i>Christian</i> movie wastes time showing repeated slow motion shots of a woman in a skimpy bikini getting out of a hot tub. Oh, you didn't know this was a Christian movie? It's obvious. Miles finds God after a few bad choices. He allows his cousin to join his crew on a whim, and Miles' cousin promptly gets killed. So revenge is exacted on his enemies by sneaking into their house and ritually murdering them all. But it is the theft of a preacher's car (yes, THAT preacher!) that turns Miles' life around. You see, in the car were some very important doctrines regarding the end days. Our felonious hero watches a DVD explaining how Christ is the one true way and light, but we the viewers are not allowed to hear or see exactly what it is that has affected him so. He immediately drives to a Christian bookstore, where the girl at the counter goes on to explain that Revelations actually predicted the World Trade Center attacks from September 11, 2001. YOU SEE, JESUS IS REAL! Miles has been reborn. He gets baptized and joins the good guys to help bring down terrorists, and I guess God forgives him for the many brutal murders he's committed since he believes in Jesus the Christ now. Oh, and the government forgives him too, 'cause he doesn't go to jail or anything. But Miles has honestly learned not one goddamn thing. He lets the guy who killed his cousin go, saying, "I don't know why I'm doing this. I think it has something to do with the man upstairs." No, it has to do with the fact that you're in a horrendous movie. But somehow I made it through. I can take anything you can throw at me. Go ahead, bring on <i>Manos: Hands of Fate</i>. After watching all of <i>A Sinner's Prayer</i>, I'm pretty sure nothing can hurt me now. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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