Metacritic Film

God's Army

Starring Paul Vito Abato, Anthony Anselmi, Larry Bagby, and Sherri Boyzsa

MPAA RATING: PG for thematic elements and some language

Excel Entertainment
Drama
108 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters August 25, 2000

A movie about the experiences of a group of Latter-Day Saints missionaries working in Los Angeles.

WRITTEN BY
Richard Dutcher

DIRECTED BY
Richard Dutcher

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

38 / 100

Critic Reviews

60 Los Angeles Times Kathleen Craughwell
A sensitive and thoughtful probe into questions of faith and the difficulties faced by those who are called to teach others.
60 LA Weekly
A fine cast of unknowns in a story of faith -- lost, found and continually challenged -- that neither romanticizes nor condescends to its milieu.
50 New York Post
Its intriguing subject matter is diluted by too many bland performances.
50 Boston Globe
In its zeal to counter the negativity usually found in depictions of Mormons, God's Army eventually succumbs to overearnestness, sentimentality, and cliche.
40 TV Guide
Not everyone will be comfortable with a story that's as geared toward recruitment as any Army film, be it God's or Uncle Sam's.
30 Village Voice
Tries to show the oh-so-human side of Gospel-hawking, His Word, the Path, and so on.
30 The New York Times
Eventually becomes preaching that is likely to tax the credibility of the unconverted.
30 Austin Chronicle
At it's best, it's a wishy-washy treatise that fails to elicit much of any reaction.

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