‘Unstoppable’ Movie By Kirk Cameron Review: Problem Of Evil Needs More Info, Less Art

The Unstoppable movie by Kirk Cameron had a second showing last night, which in my area had a good attendance considering it was limited to the most expensive theater in the area.

As previously reported by The Inquisitr, the Unstoppable movie is Kirk Cameron’s most successful Jesus film ever.

Last week, the first showing of the Unstoppable movie was shown in 700 theaters and scored $2 million, which means it sold approximately 150,000 ticket sales.

Kirk Cameron’s Unstoppable movie benefited from a controversy where links to the movie’s website were being blocked by Facebook and YouTube as “spam.” The site had even been blocked by McAfee site advisor as a potential source of viruses. How did this happen? Some people claim it’s possible the previous owner of the website web domain had been blocked as a spammer but others point out that a large number people may have purposefully reported the Unstoppable movie links as spam.

This is how the Unstoppable movie has been described:

“Join Kirk in his inspiring investigation into the moral origins of good and evil, their inspirational value and their historical significance to us today. Unstoppable promises to bring families and communities together with a big picture view of how we can live victorious lives in the face of adversity, changing our world for good.”

What this means is that the movie tackles the philosophical issue called the Problem of Evil. They ask the question: “Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?”

But I’d have to say Kirk Cameron’s Monumental movie did a better job overall with its subject matter than the Unstoppable movie. Even another Christian movie called The Encounter does a more thorough take on the subject matter. The question does get answered by explaining the Biblical history but the real meat of the answer doesn’t come to the end. Most of the movie time is consumed by long artsy renditions about Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, along with some humorous skits discussing Noah’s flood.

Unfortunately, the live event before the main movie seemed mostly an advertisement for Christian college Liberty University, which apparently had a large hand in making the Unstoppable movie. It featured Mandisa singing an inspirational song and Chuck Woods, father of one of the slain Benghazi heroes, who talked about why God would allow his son to be slain. But otherwise the hardball questions were left for the movie itself.

The backdrop for the Unstoppable movie was the funeral of a young man who had been suffering from cancer for 10 years. The various iterations of responses to the Problem of Evil were quickly covered at one point. Kirk Cameron’s final answer is that God allowed the evil choices of man to pervert His good desires for the world while providing a long term plan to correct this evil in the form of Jesus. So, while God allows our evil, He doesn’t necessarily desire, or is powerless to prevent, these consequences.

But the people with me at the theater believed this topic needed more discussion. The role of free will versus predestination was barely touched upon. There’s other related discussions that could have been explored, including why doesn’t God heal all people but only some? Of course, entire Christian denominations disagree on these issues so it’s possible Kirk Cameron chose to stick to one simple answer that people could agree upon.

What did you think about the Unstoppable movie by Kirk Cameron?