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Nothing Is Impossible (2022)
Not based in reality
I am a Christian, a serious evangelist, and high ranking deacon in a large church, and... a lifelong basketball player. So I should love this movie right?
I want Christian movies to succeed and reach the unsaved and provide good entertainment, so do... and some don't. The issues with this movie really insult the intelligence.
From a basketball standpoint. The actor is over 50 and maybe looks a little younger but he is not tall. We don't see him playing in active basketball leagues and constantly playing outside of hitting shots on his break from being a janitor. Chris Webber would be around the same age as the protagonist in this movie and he is 6 10 and he could not last 2 minutes in today's NBA, so why should a 5 11 set shot specialist. We do not see him guarding anyone as your lateral movement is gone besides giving away inches and wingspan. The kid on the high school team jumps to the NBA after one year in college, yet there are no recruiters in the stands for his games. To be one and done in college in the NBA you have to be a highly touted prospect. Knoxville would never get an NBA team as the Memphis Grizzlies would have a huge problem with that. I can go on and on about the flaws with basketball.
As for the Christian theme. The main character seems to never be Christian in any form and goes to one Christian athletes meeting and is quoting the Bible and giving pep talks, that just reeks of fakeness to a non believer. The team owner has more cleavage than a mafia movie. The pastor of the church snubs the "wanna be" pastor for the protagonist. We see the team owner pray once but never minister to the main character.
There are the plot holes. So main character leaves team owner at the altar and she welcomes him back with open arm. Protagonist has lived 20 years as a janitor and never dated or had any friends.
If you run a suicide in 35 seconds you probably don't make a high school team. WE had to run them in 28 seconds and we were not an NBA team.
I could come up with 100 other things. As Christians we need to create movies that draw non believers in with a believable story so that the biblical message is subliminal. The story is engaging and not insulting, so that a non-Christian can watch the movie and enjoy it while getting ministered to. This flies in the face of that, it is a vanity project and I have to give a 2 rating.