Well, from the little press I saw regarding this movie when it first came out, I'll admit I wasn't running to the theater. (I wasn't even running to the video store.) However, when it came on HBO recently, my sister told me to sit down and watch it, to compare it to our family.

This movie was almost scary in how closely it mimicked our gatherings (especially funerals, but all gatherings in general). I really felt like the writers knew us, as they hit several depictions right on the head.

The Slocums are more the typical Black family than most movies will show nowadays--sure there are a few people who lose their way now and again, but family brings them back around. (What family isn't slightly dysfunctional anyway? It just makes family gatherings more amusing. Heck--my family even has the three holy-terror-boys who run around every gathering destroying everything.)

I'm not going to say that the acting was outstanding, or the script completely original because it wasn't. THE SCRIPT WAS REALISTIC, THOUGH. It wasn't original because anyone could have sat through a funeral in their family and copied things word for word. I do recommend this movie. The last minute is a little cheesy, but hey, the rest of the movie works so well that you accept it. There weren't any unnecessary curses, gratuitous violence or sex. It was just a movie about family. What is more real than that?

This is the ultimate feel-good movie because you feel like it is real. Some movies are just too contrived, but I had to smile to myself at the end of this movie. It shows how the strength of your family helps you cope and heal together.

This movie had a great cast, but I think there were too many great cast members that it became impossible to explore each of their characters in the 1 1/2 hours! Toni Braxton had a not-so-big role but a necessary role that had potential of being explored further (like the scene where she goes to try & comfort Vivica when all hell breaks loose, that had a dead ending). She did a great job being her first movie, and I loved "The Chewing Gum Scene" - as I call it!

All in all, I loved the movie. It was funny & touching in some scenes and give it a 6 1/2 out of 10.

First, I'll say bravo!. I haven't seen such mastery. It was not just a movie, but a means to teach everybody not to look down on any person or group of people. With the likes of James Todd Smith (LL COOL J), Jada Pinkett Smith and the others, what else was expected from a movie that comprises of such great Juggernauts.

kingdom Come talks about a family that was in great need of help; a family that had Wayward people, helpless and narrow minded people. But at the end, everybody in the family had a change and got better. This was only achieved by the death of a family member that was regarded as a cold-hearted man.

All I'll say is that it isn't just a movie to be watched, but it is to be pondered over.