Heaven Is for Real

Heaven Is for Real works in mysterious ways for a faith-based movie. It actually leaves room for doubt, in a genre founded on Christian absolutes. Tears aren't jerked; bibles aren't thumped. Believing gets easier.

This company of actors pulls together and delivers a lot of punch to a pedestrian script inspired by quite an amazing tale.

This movie is bizarre, conflicted, unintentionally hilarious and profoundly mediocre – something like one of those based-on-a-true-story demonic possession yarns, with its polarities reversed – but not stupid in the way you’re probably thinking.

The images of heaven somehow diminish the impact of the boy's experience, perhaps because heaven is just too profound for anyone to film.

Wallace made a lot of shrewd decisions to sock this movie home, but he can’t entirely overcome the dramatic thinness of the original material.

A well-meaning but misshapen movie about the folly of pursuing answers to unanswerable questions.

As much an inspirational email forward as a film, it’s helped by the work of a strong cast and some photography that makes Nebraska look like heaven on earth. That doesn’t make it persuasive, however.

Very moving, touching and well-acted movie based on a true story. Heaven is truly for real. Heartfelt and emotionally charged that will make you feel real hope and compassion. A must see!

Very thought provoking and interesting (enough to keep me watching) It's not about the entertainment, the reviews, the story or acting. Not the cast or the writing, not even the set. It's about faith. Maybe not a very well example, but still counts. What do you believe?

If I had not read the book I might have found myself with a different opinion of the film. Expectations for the movie weren't very high, as they aren't high for any book to movie transition. The acting was verging on B rated besides Greg Kinnear's performance witch was very well played. I came away from Heaven is for real disappointed and wishing more had come out of such a great live to tell story. The movie felt weak in structure and spotty with well thought out dialogue. I might add that I loved the book, but felt the movie fell short. Heaven Is for Real is an attempt at influencing people towards Christianity, that was rained on by distracting characters and a poor written script.

I was raised a Christian although I no longer believe in it. To me this film is just an elaborate science fiction film masquerading as real life Christianity. It's well acted and beautifully shot, but really, it kind of prays on the beliefs of the majority of the world’s faithful. It's just not for me.

It's disappointing to see a movie with such a great story go to waste like this. The first 1/4 of the movie was completely irrelevant to the rest of the plot, the acting ranged from bearable to cringe inducing and everything in between, there were comedy elements thrown in there that were completely uncalled for, lots of plot holes, and worst of all, the writing was just awful. It's a shame that this movie was so sloppily thrown together, it had potential but don't even bother with this one.