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| Cast |
Taylor James, Caitlin Leahy, Jackson Rathbone, Billy Zane, Rutger Hauer, Lindsay Wagner, Frances Sholto-Douglas |
| Director |
Bruce Macdonald, Gabriel Sabloff |
| Screenplay | Jason Baumgardner, Galen Gilbert, Timothy Ratajczak, Zach Smith, based on the story in the Bible. |
| Music | Will Musser |
| Cinematography | Trevor Michael Brown, Brian Shanley |
| Editing | Tim Goodwin, Vance Null, Gabriel Sabloff |
| Made in | 2018 |
| Produced by | Pure Flix Productions, Boomtown films |
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| Genre | Action, drama |
| Language | None |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Frequent, moderate impact physical and emotional violence with scenes of domestic violence e.g. raging battles with sword fights, bow and arrow shooting, punching and kicking during battle. |
| Prejudice | Mild impact, prejudice of racial discrimination e.g. slavery and oppression of the Hebrews by the Philistines. |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Themes are complex and mature of slavery, poverty, a prophecy, a suffering people, tormented and tortured by their captors, hunger and starvation, belief in God, master/slave relations, God's miracles, faith, hope, secrecy, the Philistine people, killings, bad vs good, religion, rebellion, the Hebrew tribe, love, deception, betrayal, Samson's great strength and might, marriage, retaliation, loyalty, sin, the power of God, victory, misuse of power and oppression, The Living God vs the god of the non-believers, shame, honour, dishonour, threats, fear, destruction, redemption and good triumphing over evil. The themes are based on the Bible story and ancient historical events about the great Hebrew warrior, Samson who was betrayed by the woman he loved, who tricked him into revealing the secret behind his might and strength, which led to his downfall. Children under the age of 13 years, may find the material to be confusing, distressing and upsetting to their sense of security and well-being and it might cause them psychological and emotional harm. |
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| PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned | Rated PG-13 for violence and battle sequences |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
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| Suggested age limit 14 + |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Metacritic.com 6 critics | 3 |  |
| Rottentomatoes critics 16 critics | 10 |  |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer | 5 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Michael Ordona  Bible-based tale has bloody beatings, eye-gougings, more. | 2 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 18 users | 5 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 715 users | 12 |  |
| IMDB 1978 Netizens | 8 | |
| The Movie DB Community | 12 | |
Average .. 36% | 7 | |