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- 2017
- PG-13
- Lionsgate Films
- 2 h 12 m
- 2017
- PG-13
- Lionsgate Films
- 2 h 12 m
Summary After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips (Sam Worthington) spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Despite his doubts, Mack journeys to the shack and encounters an enigmati...
Directed By: Stuart Hazeldine
- 2017
- PG-13
- Lionsgate Films
- 2 h 12 m
- 2017
- PG-13
- Lionsgate Films
- 2 h 12 m
The Shack
32
5.6
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Summary After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips (Sam Worthington) spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Despite his doubts, Mack journeys to the shack and encounters an enigmati...
Directed By: Stuart Hazeldine
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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50% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
50% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
32
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
50% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
50% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Though the dialogue is written with all the finesse of a self-help book, and the visuals are a garish technicolor explosion, there are some nuggets of wisdom that do resonate, regardless of personal belief.
The strangest thing about The Shack, and the reason it’s finally a so-so movie, is that all the rage and terror and dark-side vengeance that Mack has to learn to transcend is something we’re told about, but we never actually see him mired in it.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 68 User Ratings
5.6
51% Positive
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
13% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
35% Negative
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 68 User Ratings
5.6
51% Positive
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
13% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
35% Negative
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
Best movie ever. Only downvoted because it has a high religious meaning, and people often feel attacked when they encounter religion, since they are anti-religion
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This film is the most important film ever to have been released. It has the potential to change the attitudes and beliefs of ordinary people worldwide and for generations to come. We are currently living in a world which has very little time for God. Instead we spend our entire time judging other people and imposing on them our own man-made moral standards and definitions of what is right and wrong. Unfortunately the religious establishment has largely colluded in this process. Through its doctrines of dogmatic biblical literalism, loving families are being torn apart as people grieve because they believe their loved ones died unsaved and are forever in hell. This film confronts this cruel philosophy head-on by portraying God as the truly loving and forgiving God that we know through Jesus. It speaks directly to our hearts in a beautifully creative and quite original way and has the potential thereby to change millions of people's lives for ever. And that is something that no film has ever succeeded in doing.
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Good intentions, but far too earnest to appeal to anyone beyond those who believe you can fight a true crisis of the soul with a campfire and some Kumbaya.
While I appreciate any faith-based film that isn’t all about the anger and intellectual dishonesty of “God’s Not Dead,” there’s no endorsing a fairy-tale this literal and insipid.
For faithful and faithless alike, The Shack may seem stupid, laughable, blasphemous, poorly acted and totally banal. And yet there are probably worse things then being told it’s righteous to forgive and that love is good.
However universal the perennial questions and struggles that The Shack illuminates, under Stuart Hazeldine’s plodding direction, its faith-based brand of self-help feels like being trapped in someone else’s spiritual retreat — in real time.
After seeing The Shack — after enduring, that is, its 132 minutes of blissed-out New Age religiosity — I’ve become a believer. I believe there is no role Octavia Spencer can’t play with convincing feeling and an impeccably straight face.
I must say, I have a family and this movie touched my heart in a way that I haven't felt while watching a movie in a long time. Every man, woman and child on this Earth will suffer at some point , it's inevitable. The message this movie promotes is belief that no matter what, God's plan is greater than our comprehension... and God IS good. No doubt, due to the Christian nature of this movie, the critics are extraordinarily critical on it (forgive the pun). It's a great film experience and lends itself to those that are, or have been, broken.
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This is such a bizarre movie, and not because of the religious/spiritual elements. The acting is actually pretty good and the plot isn't terrible, but just about everything else in the movie is. I think the editing was the ultimate downfall of this film. Just a strange film, that had potential and didn't at the same time. Hard to put my finger on it.
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If forgiving is that easily convincible, then welcome to the crime world!
A novel based film. A religious themed film. It has a message, BUT could be a bad message for today's world. Because how the event was dealt with the story only encourages the crime, in reality. Wise people can say philosophically, morally, but not means every words practically applicable. The common people would get affected more. Other than that, I have no grudge on anything. If it has been just a fantasy and an entertaining film, excluding that Christian thing, I would have liked it better.
It was more like another 'What Dreams May Come', but less visual spectacular. On the other hand, there was an uneasiness in the development of what happened in the early stage of the story. They did not go for the detail, from the crime perspective, hence that mysterious event holds the key which we don't know exactly what happened to judge anything out of the film. So that part reminds 'The Lovely Bones'.
The story of a father whose little girl mysteriously disappeared on a camping trip. Now the struggling father to cope with the incident gets an invitation to meet the creators. His journey to the other side of the world, where he goes through a series of unexpected tests, and at the end, how his character changes are told in those remaining parts.
Worthington, Spencer, everybody was good. But the story is what I did not like. Like it was aimed for Christians only. But I believe not every Christian would agree with this story. I felt it was an unnecessary film. If it was fun like 'Bruce Almighty', the whole world would have enjoyed it. Too serious and very not acceptable message led this film to fall. No, it is not worth a watch for people with the open mind, unless this is what you were looking for.
3/10
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Bom , esse e um filme que tem uma historia boa e tinha uma grande chance de dar certo so que na minha opiniao fi um fracasso / Bom o filme tem um visual legal ( em algumas partes chega a ser horrivel ) / Eu achei a atuações ruims ( menos da Octavia Spencer ) / Um filme que teoricamente era pra fazer todo mundo chorar e acabou nao acontecendo isso na minha sala quase ninguém chorou só umas 5 pessoas / Emfim filme religioso não faz meu gênero , eu acho que esse filme foi mais focado para as pessoas mais velhas ou que leram o livro e gostam de religião / Mais no aspecto Cinematográfico o filme e um fracasso
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Production Company
Summit Entertainment,
TIK Films,
Netter Productions,
Windblown Media,
Canadian Film or Video Production Services Tax Credit (PSTC),
Province of British Columbia Production Services Tax Credit
Release Date Mar 3, 2017
Duration 2 h 12 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline You're never as alone as you think.
Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
GMA Dove Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Young Entertainer Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
