What if…
What if I didn’t get to see this film? Would it have mattered?
That’s how I felt when I was done watching this movie.
What If is
the Christian version of Nicolas Cage’s The Family Man (2000), and
it’s a bad reinvention of the wheel.
What If is dull, and at times it just looked stupid. The comedy was not
well-timed, and the adaptation of the character to his new life was rough. The
whole plot that led to him getting used to his new life was weak and not well
thought through. You already have the script of the movie you want to copy, so
why not just copy it?
While watching,
I didn’t feel the attachment to his children, which is very important. There
was a time when his kids felt he was another man entirely, and then later on,
there was a fatherly bond going on. What happened in between?
The producers just took a good story and made a nonsense tale out of it,
stamping it with “Christian drama.”
As a strong
supporter of independent films, I dislike it when I see a lot of things going
wrong with some movies. I don’t know if the challenge Christian movies are
having is trying to remove all the things they call evil from their movies,
thinking it will make them better.
Although this is not the worst Christian movie I’ve seen, it won’t come in as
average either, as it was not that good.
The movie’s plot
is about a man, Ben Walker (Kevin Sorbo), who left the path that God had
planned for him and went into the real world. There, Ben made a success of
himself. He was happy with his money and his investments until he ran into an
angel who told him that he would have to see life on the other side—to see what
life would have been like if he had done what God expected of him.
Unable to get
away from what had been set in motion, Ben decided to get used to the life
where he is now married to his first love, is a pastor of a growing church, and
is a father. All this with the hope that, in the end, God will let him return
to his previous life where everything was just as he liked it.
I won’t give this movie a good rating because I know it could have been better.
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