This movie is about the standard 90 minutes long but at the 60 minute point I felt like I had watched it for two hours. It dragged on and on.

The story is OK - not that much really happens of much interest. It would have been much more engaging if the story explored the turmoil of the characters in more depth - I did find it very superficial for the most part.

It's not a movie I would watch again.

One reviewer had the descriptions of the roles of Garret and Augie switched. Another had Dilly and Mara switched. One called Augie a "boy from the outside" but he was raised in that church and sometimes still attended with his parents, he just had not bought into it.

One said they "worship the serpent" but they don't actually "worship" it. Another associated the snakes with Satan and that is to some degree a Bible thing, but IS NOT THE POINT in these churches, just the fact that it is normally likely to bite and its venom is poisonous. I mostly know this because I am from the Southeast and have always kept up with current events for MANY years, so such churches got "covered". However, I feel the stuff about the snakes themselves (and why they are "handled") was clear from the movie.

One reviewer said the police arrest Augie, when it was accually Garret (and this was not the reviewer who had them mixed up all along). To some degree they depend on God to heal them but when it becomes obvious that is not working the main reason they do not go to the hospital is that then the police would come arrest the leader they are so devoted to. One reviewer said that nobody actually handles snakes that way -- it is rare nowadays because there are laws against it and population and media have made it harder to hide it if they did -- but it is a FACT that more than a few used to do it, not that long ago.

Also, to the person who made fun of the type of syringe thy used for the morphine -- did you not hear them say they were scrounging up stuff from the vet?

So, I did pretty much like it and I gave it a 7. But I am amazed how many very good high-profile actors they got to make this particular type of movie! I agree with another reviewer in that I too did not really like Booksmart (though I did not hate it) but that Kaitlyn Dever was very good in it -- but she was SUPERB in 'Unbelievable' and here she was given hardly anything to do.