Rotten
This new film moves along smoothly until Grandpa's most preposterous mission - which needlessly drags out the movie -- takes Jason to a severely caricatured Ecuador.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
The Ultimate Gift
Life is how you live it... not how you spend it.
2007 · 1h 54m · PG
Drama, Family, Romance
Directed by
Michael O. Sajbel
Overview
When his wealthy grandfather finally dies, Jason Stevens fully expects to benefit when it comes to the reading of the will. But instead of a sizable inheritance, Jason receives a test, a series of tasks he must complete before he can get any money.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
33%
Tomatometer
Rotten
I think urban sophisticates can be people of faith who want to see movies, occasionally, that don't have the four-letter words, and I do embrace religion, but I think they have to be better than this.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
If you missed the money-isn't-everything message, an end-credits recap outlines the story's salient points -- if you'd known, you could've skipped the rest.
Erin Clements, Time Out New York
Fresh
[James] Garner is good, and so is Brian Dennehy as a crusty ranch owner; Abigail Breslin, playing a leukemia patient, demonstrates that she was not a one-note wonder in Little Miss Sunshine.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten
The Ultimate Gift is kind of like a feel-good Saw for churchgoers, minus the sadistic games of death.
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly
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