I am glad to say that I enjoyed this movie. 99% of most Christian movies are pretty bad. I am a Christian myself and it hurts me to say that but it's true. Anybody who likes movies and is a Christian, knows what I am talking about. It's usually embarrassing. With that being said, this movie was done very well. It had great sound, it was shot well, and the story didn't give you that 'shove' that most Christian movies give you. You know, the movies that think they MUST push the Jesus message so strongly or else it wont be understood. Of course I believe that Jesus is the only way, period, but to make Christians look sad, weak and wimpy is just too much for me to handle when watching it portrayed as so. If people really saw Jesus as He really is, they wouldn't be able to stand in His presence. Plus, He is VERY masculine, not this pretty boy image He is always being portrayed as.

Anyway, back to the review.

I must say, the movie was a little slow, but, it kept my attention through it all. It worked itself out. If your looking for a major Hollywood blockbuster, of course this isn't it, but you will not be disappointed either.

The main events that happen in the movie are very far apart, but this is how the book was written and thats the way it happened according to the book and according to the testimony of the Burpo family.

The only real thing that bothered in the movie was the lack of belief and faith the main characters had when they found out what Colton experienced when he was in the hospital. I mean, Todd Burpo, the father, was a pastor. When i saw throughout the movie how much he wavered and didn't know what to believe because it was 'irrational', it was kind of upsetting to me. But i guess thats how he really was in the beginning.

Margo Martindale, who played Nancy Rawling, a board member of the church Todd Burpo was pastoring, is probably the character that bugged me the most. She had many issues that many face today in the church, and it obvious shows in her character role.

It was a good movie overall, and believe me, i would tell you otherwise even though i am a Christian. I rate movies for what they are, not what they are expected to be according to the Hollywood standards. Go see it. you won't be disappointed.

When it comes talking about heaven and hell, we just start ignoring the fact that they might exist. Everyone has heard about it, but nobody wants to believe in its existence. Well, I doubt myself. Sometimes, I want to believe in it but something always stops me from doing so. The movie talks about it, but it's only from a Christian's point of view.

I liked the concept of the movie. They don't actually make us believe in the existence of heaven (or hell), but the good thing about the movie is that, they've kept an effort to show how the world would react when something extraordinary happens. Whatever, the story and the concept touched my heart. It would have been better if they had gone deeper than this. They could have taken the lines of Bible or so, in order to have a factual conversations.

Movie says, it's based on a true story but when there's talking about Jesus, it becomes a Christian's story, not universal. It's not a must watch movie but I would recommend it. I say, we've always watched Sci-Fi movies when we know they are not true, why don't we give a try to some spiritual movies? For most of the people today, they would be only as true as the sci-fi. There's no any magic in the story, just some story of miracles. What if it was 'Your' story? How would you make people believe in you encountering miracles?

While the movie may not be at it best, it's not bad for a one time viewing. My rating would be 7 for the story, acting, dialogues and well, because it has some sort of influence to the society...

"Heaven is for Real" is based on the book of the same name. I'll admit up front, I didn't read it.

The son of a preacher, Todd Burpo (Greg Kinnear) becomes critically ill and when he gets well, he tells his parents that he went to heaven, met the big cheese (I guess it was Jesus), met his grandfather and met his sister, whom his mother (Kelly Reilly) miscarried and he never knew about.

The interesting thing here is that his father and many others in the parish don't know what to make of it. They find it disturbing and his father questions his own belief in things he's been telling his parishoners for years. It gets to the point in the parish where there is talk of replacing Burpo.

I thought this was a good movie, which didn't hit everyone on the head with Christianity and stayed away from sentimentality.

I find the whole subject of life after death and near-death experience a fascinating topic, all the more fascinating because science's attempt to explain it has failed. We've heard about the euphoric state that causes the wonderful feeling of peace, we've heard what causes hallucinations yada yada yada but no one has been able to explain why, while all these brain functions are apparently going on, the patients have flatlined and there is no brain activity.

I used to watch a show on, I believe, A&E called Life After Life where real people recounted their experience. These weren't near-death experiences. They were DEATH experiences. All of these people had been pronounced dead, and they came back by some miracle - none of them were expected to live. These stories were similar but different.

What impressed me about those stories and the little boy's story is that each person had an experience that he or she could understand, so they weren't all the same. I understand at the end of the book, the boy describes some sort of battle that seemed to some reviewers like a video game description. That fits in with what the Life After Life people said, because a child would be able to relate to that.

This is a controversial subject, and any time there is a film that describes life after death, positive thinking, the law of attraction, etc., it is bludgeoned by IMDb. That's fine. I believe the spirit continues, and I found this a nice movie.