Last Ounce of Courage (2012)

An Exercise In Nonsense

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

A little over-acted, probably because of direction. However, a excellent story very relevant today! All freedoms are relevant, even for Christians. Freedoms are not just for the ones you agree with, but for all. Same as for religions and this movie strongly portrays this fact.

Once more a movie is made to make Christians like myself have me want to hide my faith and have me be reluctant to call myself a Christian.It's bad enough we have straw man crap films about the existence of God in the God's Not Dead films or flawed arguments about creation like Matter of Faith, but when it comes to the whole stupid taking away Christmas angle, this piece of crap film takes the cake when it comes to the whole stupid persecution angle.Why the hell would politicians take away Christmas? Would the same morons who are protesting about Christmas do the same thing for Non- Christian holidays? What right do they have to go waving around the American flag on their advertisement, when the film is fighting against the church/state separation, the core foundation of this country? and on a final note: what the hell is with the ACLU like organization doing being depicted as the bad guys?I would expect some kind of answer, but then again with a film that's been approved by Chuck Norris, I might not want an answer.

I know lots of Christians and they really don't seem this dumb or confused about how logic or the world works. This movie is insulting not just to all other beliefs and non-beliefs but it is insulting to Christians by painting them all as drooling morons who don't understand how laws, lawyers, wars, teenagers, plays, politics, or the government works. Fine it is a movie and it isn't suppose to represent reality but if that is the case this movie has the exact same amount of truth and facts in it as Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles, but it is somehow less entertaining than any of those movies. The movie actually probably deserves 1 star, but in this case I am rewarding this movie for its production value being better than the average Christian movie. Some of the acting was competent and the cinematography seems competent. Now if the Christians can find someone that can write a decent story they may make a movie that will appeal to people that don't even believe in the magical sky daddy.

If this movie was set on an alternative universe were in the U.S. freedom didn't exist at all, it would make a far more interesting film that this.Another entry in the beautiful American Evangelical pastime of "making stuff up so we can feel persecuted." Other groups may try their hand at it every so often, but no one else has it on lock quite like them.Last Ounce Of Courage is about the son of a fallen soldier trying to reconnect with his grandfather, who is still grieving over the loss of his son. If you watched that trailer up there you can see that is not the case. The movie is actually about the mayor of a small town fighting to bring Christmas back to his town where is has been outlawed by the government...for reasons.As usual conservatives. Don't have a brain in their head. There are more churches than homes. Not a single conversation can be had without God/Jesus being given full praise. Christmas is the greatess yielding time of the year with an explosive church attendance. The only people trying to take freedoms away ARE the conservatives.You know, my big question is: what is that dumb mophead kid's motivation for even caring about anything rather than the script says so even worst his name is Christian!The Christian and conservative propaganda is painfully everywhere, sending the message that if your Christian in the united states your being oppressed by the government, it's a fact no everyone celebrates the same holidays during Christmas, it makes sense to generalize it, instead of saying marry Christmas , happy holidays is OK, the antagonist represents some group. It never says what group or organization, but it becomes very clear very fast that the group is democrats; It also says that if you believe in the separation of church and state then you are non American. The thing that really put this movie over the edge in terms of being terrible was the way they used soldiers dying in the middle east to manipulate the audiences feelings to support their message, even worst was that lame mophead kid idea of showing that tape were it shows his father dying...Way to show your respect for your fallen parent just let everyone in the podium witness your father getting killed, why not have some dignity and keep that to yourself.The only thing that makes this movie watchable is the unintentional funny humor in it