2.2?
How is it rated a 2.2 when half the votes are a 10?
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IMDB says it uses a weighted average but does not disclose how it is "weighted".
My guess is that the more movies you rate, the more "weight" your vote counts. Otherwise, people affiliated with a production who may have never rated a movie before could overwhelm the ratings with 10s. Then if an avid movie goer's who has no agenda rates it a five it would hardly move the meter. By giving the avid movie critic a higher "weight" it gives the movie a more accurate measure.
That is my best guess based upon how I would structure it if I owned this site. But I could be totally wrong. The weight may be based upon what phase the moon was in when the respective votes were cast. I don't honestly know. But that's my 2 cents.
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Kota
True happiness comes from what you give in life, not from what you get.
A fair rating for this movie would probably be more like 6.2 to 7.0
It's a 6.0 story veiling a very good message (10.0) -- but the acting, while not horrible, is not quite on par with professional quality -- maybe another 6.0.
I would disagree with such a high rating for the story. Aside from the concept of a cop accidentally shooting his son, everything else in the plot comes across as contrived. The characters are all one-dimensional, and one of the major take home messages from the film seems to be that if you become a Christian all your big problems will disappear and you only need to worry about whether you should be in full-time or part-time ministry, and what your cholesterol levels are.
I know that god cop was supposed to be all torn up about the racist treatment he was receiving but I didn't get it. The supposed racist cop didn't treat him any worse than he treated his own family, and if it hadn't been mentioned in the sermon I would have had no idea it bothered the good cop at all. Is this the actor's fault? Or the writer's? Or the director's? I don't know, but for a film which, by it's title and the sermonizing is supposed to be about racism it did a very poor job of making me think racism was a problem in the world of the film.
This film seems to suffer the problem afflicting so many faith-based films of not being willing to show enough darkness to allow the dark to shine. They don't allow the characters enough conflict to make them believable, so they end up being boring one-note characters. If a script has problems like this then even good actors struggle. However, this film's actors were no better than the script, and on at least that point I can agree with you.
(1) The theme was about forgiveness, not 'become a Christian and all of your problems disappear" In fact I found this movie refreshingly free of that claptrap.
-- and (2) Memphis is an extremely racially sensitive city. African Americans often perceive racism even where there is none and use the "race card" to attempt to get away with political corruption and criminal activity (when caught they accuse the authorities of being racists). Conversely, many white people typecast all African Americans as being thugs, gangstas or cheating the welfare system because these problems are so domineering and prevalent in Memphis (yet most blacks in truth are fairly honest, ordinary people -- treated with suspicion by whites). The bitterness and resentment on both sides has divided us to where we hate and suspect each other. It may sound cheesy but things like this (the plot of the movie) DO happen.
Forgiveness breaks barriers that should have been broken years ago. Most of us DO want to forgive and come together.
The black cop was an EXTREMELY believable and realistic character
This film is not deserving of a 10. While it has good messages it lacks (sometimes severely) in other areas. That many 10s show a clear disregard for objectivity. By rating it as a 10, one has to be saying that this is one of the best movies they have ever seen. Rating something as a 10 to offset someone's 1 (and vice versa) doesn't necessarily work given IMDB's weighted average rating system.
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