Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
Directed by Marc Forster
The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers.
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"Machine Gun Preacher" is his oddest yet, a shapeless mess of a film that has a passion for its central true life subject but plays like a more liberal version of Stallone's "Rambo" reboot.
Well, maybe more of an anomaly, because in spite of the almost Tinderstickian Asche & Spencher score that gets tinkly as all get out whenever Butler's Sam Childers hopscotches from Pennsylvania to save African children orphaned by rebel violence, Machine Gun Preacher seems most interested in pulling at the heartstrings of Rambo fans, not Oscar voters, the world over.
But the film is almost a pinnacle of self-discipline compared to highfalutin, awards-mongering drivel like In a Better World , Blood Diamond , and The Constant Gardener .
This docudrama doesn’t sugarcoat what an awful person Sam Childers (Gerard Butler: How to Train Your Dragon ) is as his based-in-fact story opens: a violent junkie, he emotionally abuses his wife, Lynn (Michelle Monaghan: Source Code ) and ignores his toddler daughter (played later as a teen by Madeline Carroll: Flipped ).