It takes a certain touch to pull it off, and here, the serviceable cast just doesn't have it in them.
Overview
Law enforcement officers Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, and their partners stand up to the worst the streets have to offer with confidence and focus. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly prepared to tackle: fatherhood. They know that God desires to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, but their children are beginning to drift further and further away from them. When tragedy hits home, these men are left wrestling with their hopes, their fears, their faith, and their fathering. Can a newfound urgency help these dads draw closer to God... and to their children?
Director and cast
- Alex Kendrick Director
- Alex Kendrick as Adam Mitchell
- Ken Bevel as Nathan Hayes
- Ben Davies as David Thomson
- Kevin Downes as Shane Fuller
- Rusty Martin as Dylan Mitchell
- T.C. Stallings as T.J
- Rusty Martin Sr. as Frank Tyson
- Eleanor Brown as Kayla Hayes
- Matt Hardwick as Antonie
- Robert Amaya as Javier Martinez
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The many topics raised - gangs, drugs, immigration, absentee parents, poverty - are examined with didacticism and platitudes instead of by mining their inherent complexities.
Overplotted and understructured, "Courageous" is a slog to get through at 130 minutes.
Devolves into over-the-top drama and a suffocating heavy-handedness.
Fails to answer the more pressing question of why religious sagas such as this treat subtlety as a sin.
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