The Sunset Limited (2011)

This is the most boring movie ever made! Idare anyone to find anything worse. This movie should be banned as it could lead to suicides! And the irony in this is that suicide is the main theme of this piece of hot steaming garbage. I am shocked that such an awful thing gets produced. Do you guys realize how many chances people had to stop this garbage from being released onto the world? From writing to pre production then filming ,editing and marketing someone at some point could have said "ok people are were really gonna release this?" Well. It got made. It got out. And it's worth 0 in my opinion. I was forced to give this piece of crap 1 star. But to be honest one is too much.

The most impressive thing about this film is that it had me sitting and listening to two men talking to each other for a solid hour and a half.In keeping with the tag line—"Nothing is ever black or white"—there is no driving agenda to the film's overall message that I could discern. It's not trying to push Christianity, nor atheism. It simply presents two men's opposing beliefs. The preacher is no perfect Christian, nor the professor an all-knowing atheist, for neither such people exist.What it does do, however, is keep you rooted to your seat. The professor just tried to commit suicide—that's the premise of the film—and the preacher is doing everything in his power to convince him not to try again. So he tells him stories. He challenges his pessimism. He makes no secret of his own belief in God, and the professor makes no secret of what he thinks of that.There are some great points in their conversation, from both sides. You'll probably be compelled to examine your own beliefs and challenge your reasons for having them. And that's what this film succeeds at most of all: provoking a debate between polar opposite beliefs, and leaving no doubt as to the importance of that debate, because a man's life hangs in the balance.Hell, I've been writing this for 200 words and I'm already running out of things to say. But a 1.5-hour movie filled with near-constant dialogue will somehow keep you rooted to your seat. How? Go find out.

While I did not expect a movie enacted as a play It was due to the skill of these veteran actors made it enjoyable. While understanding the two religious beliefs and point of view for each of the characters, I came away with the notion that it is the sane people who would commit suicide. Most of the people in the world follow a plan and stick their heads in the sand as sort of societal automatons. It also seems that Jackson was stunned by the reason that Lee wanted to commit suicide to the point he had to let him leave the apartment. That from where I was viewing. I have recommended this movie to a few people. I know people of both persuasions so it will be interesting what they get from the movie.

I can see how both camps, Atheist and God-people are irritated during the first 10-15 minutes of this movie. Atheist: "YAY, we're finally portrayed on-screen at-ALL, but heck, it's a completely depressed suicidal guy representing our viewpoint", and the god-people are ticked because all they get is a broke jail-house felon. What you have to understand is that this a movie about two PARTICULAR people. One is an atheist, one is a Christian, but neither of these people necessarily represent either party. They're just people. A specific person speaking to another specific person.There are a million things that I could pinpoint about this movie that make it a 9 instead of a 10. War and Peace? Best book ever? He could have said "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" or "Game of Thrones" or "Cryptonomicon" or "Count of Monte Cristo" or a million other amazing books, but War and Peace is genuinely NOT THAT WELL WRITTEN. Fear of knowledge is a really serious contemporary problem and I don't particularly like the way being informed is portrayed here. Most of all, not having read the entire Bible? Weird. Most of us read the whole thing just for the funny, if not also the Apocrypha and any other Klingon writings. That bit is pretty hard to swallow.After watching this three times, I feel like the biggest message that god-people can take home, is seeing how Tommy Lee Jones pretty much keeps his mouth shut for an hour, just doling out little interesting things, until he finally gets so entirely fed up that he just absolutely destroys the world-view of Sam Jackson. This is WHY we don't unload on people. I might not believe in your god or gods or whatever whackadoodle thing, but I'm a good person and I don't go around utterly destroying people for the fun of it. Watch his reluctance and shaky resistance to doing it. He's literally about to kill himself, knowing that he will not exist in any way and there ARE no judgments or aftermath... and he STILL won't humiliate another person, because there is no law above to tell him what to do - he just knows how to be a good person.It's a great play, as long as you understand that it's two very specific people talking, not two representatives of two very diverse groups.