A dramatic movie that follows Grant Taylor who has been the coach at Shiloh Christian Academy since six years. During this period, he hasn't made a great success. When he exposed to three consecutive defeats in his seventh season, he may be in a hard situation. But he intends to do whatever he can to change this bad fate.
Facing the Giants feels like an overly earnest church sketch of the type many evangelical congregations use as a teaching tool on Sunday between the worship music and pastor's message.
The religious proselytizing in this football movie is about as subtle as a blindside hit by a 300-pound defensive end.
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
August 27, 2009
The separation of church and cinema amounts to a long yard at most in this high school football sermon from Georgia-based Baptist pastor Alex Kendrick.
The wholesomeness of the message and the movie's cast make it feel 1950s retro.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
September 29, 2006
I'm not about to argue with the message, but the delivery system sinks below the level of after-school special, and the acting matches.
Austin Chronicle
November 25, 2006
Its feel-good storyline, shopworn message, and bottomless sermonizing would have played better in Sunday school than on the big screen, which is -- let's face it -- Babylon's turf.
