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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIn its use of locations and sets, it's an impressive achievement by director Dean Wright, whose credits include some of the effects on the "Lord of the Rings" films. If it had not hewed so singlemindedly to the Catholic view and included all religions under the banner of religious liberty, I believe it would have been more effective.
- 60New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThe actor (Garcia), whose banked anger has been a secret weapon since "The Untouchables" 25 years ago, paints a fascinating portrait of a man moved by fate.
- 50MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeThere's enough froth along the way to keep the memory of Will Ferrell's recent "Casa Di Me Padre" close at hand.
- 40Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleThe film is ultimately a stodgy, overblown and repetitive slog.
- 38Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisSome bad movies can make you feel awful for the people who made them and worse for the audience that shows up. The actors, the script, the camera: There's nowhere good they can go. For Greater Glory is that kind of bad movie: a total embarrassment.
- 33The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinWith its shameless melodrama, ghoulish violence, and scenes of Christians being slaughtered en masse in holy places for the crime of publicly being Christians, the religious drama For Greater Glory feels an awful lot like evangelical Tribulation dramas such as "Left Behind: The Movie" and "The Omega Code."
- 30Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenOnly Ruben Blades as President Calles and Bruce Greenwood as American Ambassador Dwight Morrow get out of this film with their acting dignity intact.
- 25Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerThe film is awash in blandly brown-toned cinematography, action scenes more violent than rousing, and a whole host of bathetic subplots.
- 20Time OutTime OutExtremism in defense of liberty is no vice, but let's not get carried away here.
- 20Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonIt is plodding, lazily filmed, gassy with James Horner's score, and pads its runtime only by way of tolling repetition.