I’m seeing a lot of Pure Flix movies lately. Mostly because they all seem to be on Netflix
(and therefore free), but also because I’ve enjoyed at least a few of
them. They seem to have a decent budget,
and the writing is not half bad, so I’ve been sticking with them. There are some really bad ones (The Book of Ruth comes to mind), but
also some more solid ones.
“More solid” being a relative term compared to most
Christian movies. They seem to all be at
least problematic theological. At worst,
they succumb to bad TBN theology (Ruth). At best they are just misguided (usually in
eschatology and in Gospel presentation).
Peter, on the other hand, is actually pretty good. Now, as with some of their other films, Jesus
does appear on the screen, which is something that these movies do without even
really considering the properness of it in light of the second commandment. That being said, and this is something I’ve
said before, I’m not going to review that point, because I haven’t studied it
enough to really make a case on whether Jesus should appear in movies yet. I hope to research that a bit more and do a
blanket post that I can reference for any film that portrays the God-man.
