Fireproof

Alex Kendrick, we meet again… this is another of Kendrick’s faith-based screeds, which fortunately doesn’t lay the preaching on too thick, so much so that when the shoe inevitably drops from time to time, it’s actually a mild jolt of surprise. While you could never accuse Kendrick of being an auteur, he gets the TVM level dramatics across reasonably well, and even pulls a decent performance from Cameron who, on the basis of this, might work well in a more conventional movie, given the right conditions. Overall, this is hurt by the dramatic short-cuts of adhering to faith rather than properly resolving the plot, which is a baked-in weakness of faith-based efforts, but on a sliding scale, this is a borderline acceptable back-ground piece of entertainment.