Dexter22
Sacrifice has a pretty solid story going for it. A haunted cop befriends a priest at a local church all while dealing with his next case. The story takes off with a drug dealer who wants out and is denied that option, so he steals a statue filled with drugs and hides it in a local church. Now the dealers are after him and Cuba Gooding Jr must protect the dealers little sister.The direction shines in parts and in other parts it seems very dull. Without going into much detail of the story, the film could have been much better with different music and more solid editing. The film is edited as if it is a TV movie.Pros: Solid Perormances from Cuba Gooding Jr, Christian Slater, Devon Bostick, and Kim Coates.Good Ending Shootouts and very good emotional ties between characters.Cons: The editing, it really hurts the films. The music does not fit and is quite cheap. Some supporting players are very bad in their performances as well. The statistics in the opening and end credits are boring and take away from the story.All in all its fairly entertaining especially in the last 20 minutes, but editing may make you cringe in spots.
Matt Wilkie
I seen the other reviews and some gave it high votes and some very poor which then forced me to watch it.. Boy should I have listened to the low votes its terrible. Acting is all over the place and not in any good way even the fake irish accents of some of the cast were enough to make me cringe. Storyline had no depth and I wouldn't even say it was good enough for a TV movie as it simple had nothing of interest in it to keep people occupied. I sit here puzzled as to why the actors even made this movie as its the worst thing I have seen in a long time. Best advice on this movie is give it a complete wide birth not only is it not worth a rental fee its definitely not worth the waste of electricity to power a TV!
Mustafa
So... after awhile and reading bad and normal reviews watched this movie. and i must say it was GOOD! Not brilliant but a worthy watch.Cuba has done a fine job, not to tell all the other cast really played their part well. Has a mix of everything. I wasn't bored or even passing my time. I watched it for the sake of watching it and i am satisfied. Not a time waster of any kind. No nonsense, well plotted movie. The only loose end was the little girl who you can tell didn't really acted properly plus writer or directors fault that when she saw Cuba in kitchen with his Gun and holding belt, she didn't asked him anything about the gun, when in reality a little girl that age would ask it the first time.Movie had lot of moments you thought wont happen, but they did. I enjoyed and if you have nothing to do then do watch it.
Maddis
Wow, what a trainwreck. Where to begin...I suppose by this time you have more than recognized Cuba's downward spiral but teaming him up with Slater is an even more embarrassing turn for both actors. Slater has been pawning off his creepy yet campy style for years now and occasionally pulls of an entertaining performance (Dolan's Cadallac, He was a quiet man), but here he just swims in the dreck. Horribly miscast as a priest, he can do little more but smirk at the camera and look at his shoes. Devon Bostik is laughable as a drug dealer - I mean really, Wimpy's kid's big brother is now a tough guy? Just a total mess and a shame for all involved. I had hopes that Cuba would rebound at some point, but he seems determine to join Wesley and Steven Seagal in the DTV "worst of" series. Seriously, don't waste your time or money on this, bad bad bad.
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