Review of The Wager

The Wager (2007)
8/10
It doesn't need to have much plot!!!
9 January 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Now I am not a Christian, I am actually a Buddhist, but this movie isn't that bad as you might think, the story itself is without much deepness, but it doesn't need any deepness. It isn't even that long, and it doesn't really have any huge point in the story where it all changes, it is about the faith of the lost, the faith that must be gained ones more, through a lot of pain, faith give you power, that is what this movie is actually about. About the falling of the kind that trusts in the thing they believe, and the endless beginning of the start of trusting and believing in what you long ago lost. Randy Travis, well what can be said about him, I am actually not a Randy Travis fan if I have to be honest, it isn't because he haven't preformed anything good, it is just that it isn't what I normally follow so I was skeptic about seeing a movie with him. I jumped onto a ticket one of my girl friends had, and saw it with her, the movie didn't change me, but it made me believe that sometimes people just need to believe to hold onto hope, to have faith, and in this movie Randy Travis does just what is needed, he plays this movie really good, I couldn't see anyone else than him playing it, so with saying that he did a good job with this movie, it made me care, even though I am a Buddhist I cared. The soundtrack of the movie isn't that big but for what it is, it surely isn't flawless, but it does have a lot of good tracks on it, and does sets the mood of the movie, even the little turning point where Randy Travis ends up praying, that song was fitting perfectly. The effects of the movie isn't anything to yell about, but this isn't a movie that needs them at all, there are weird flashbacks and other stuff, it doesn't need to be there nevertheless it makes the movie more in debt and you care a little more than normal. I won't argue with the rating, I will put my rating at 8, this reason is that if you see through all the flaws and the little plot line it isn't bad, it has what it needs, it wasn't a big movie and it didn't take long, but it in the end didn't need to, the movie is a perfectly fitted more and does what it does, I will end with this single quote I myself chose to write.

We humans need to have faith to believe, to live we must have something to hold on to, It could be anything, but it all starts with trusting.
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