Fireproof: Critic Reviews

You probably can't blame pastors moonlighting as moviemakers for wanting to pack their film with multiple messages, but the conversion subplot feels shoehorned into the more crucial marital doings.

This is a decent attempt to combine faith and storytelling that will certainly register with its target audience.

With the production values of a straight-to-video cheapie and the script of a mediocre soap opera, Fireproof is good for just about one thing: dousing whatever flames might be left in your marriage.

Cameron is genuinely compelling as Caleb, a work-obsessed firefighter on the verge of divorce from his neglected wife.

While hardly sophisticated in its approach and certainly not polished in its technical elements, the film does get its heartfelt message across with undeniable sincerity.

Unfortunately, the emphasis on what God wants has a way of overwhelming who Caleb and Catherine are as characters.

Parental Content Review

As a companion piece to a Bible study group this may have some merit, but it doesn't belong in a theater.

People like Kirk Cameron apparently require Scriptural instruction about how to not act like a complete **** to your wife.

The writing and directing Kendrick brothers, Alex and Stephen, have raised blandness and narrative predictability to the level of high art.

It's one of the funniest films I've seen all year and that was obviously not the intention. This was made for elderly folk who watch Oprah and Dr. Phil and only see 2 movies a year. Embarrassing.

...decently made, with good production values, sincere performances...

Fireproof stops becoming relatable to us all and only to the already, or easily, indoctrinated.

Fireproof isn't merely preaching to the already converted; it's helping to further alienate the unconverted and the skeptical.

After a shaky start and a steady middle, the film ends on a genuinely moving note; the folks at Sherwood Baptist Church have made their most impressive movie yet.

In the history of marital discord in the movies, has there ever been a blander conflict than the one between firefighter Kirk Cameron and his goodly wife Erin Bethea in the dismal Christian-themed melodrama Fireproof?

Christian-themed marriage drama won't grab kids.

Geared for the same Christian audience that loved "Facing the Giants," it is another winner for the Kendricks brothers

If you've never heard of "Fireproof," that could mean you are not a member of a faith-based community. On the other hand, it just might mean that you haven't stumbled upon this new release that packed Quad-City theaters over the weekend.

An evangelical bid to transform Satan's headquarters -- the multiplexes -- into ministries of religious healing between handfuls of popcorn, for Christian faithfuls. Though the actual target audiences are the sinners more likely to frequent blockbusters.