Today, there are movies made for every possible interest and taste. No matter whether your interests are in romance, mystery, thriller, science fiction, horror, conspiracies, gay, coming-of-age, war or dozens of other subjects, people are turning out movies that should be of interest to you.
One of these dozens of theme or subject possibilities are Christian- themed movies.
Personally, I do take a bit of satisfaction in seeing that there are Christian-themed movies out there. Given the fact that there are literally millions of people in the world who are Christian, it's nice to know that somebody is making movies for them; I think it would be unfortunate if they somehow got left out of having the opportunity to go see movies in their area of interest. And I'm also keenly aware of the fact that one of the foundational principles and motivations for the founding of the United States was the notion of religious freedom, and it would be my opinion that if there were some sort of unique stifling of Christian-themed movies in America, that would constitute a definite compromise of that founding principle.
It should be specifically noted that there is nothing sneaky or manipulative about LUCKY'S TREASURE. It most certainly is not any kind of underhanded Trojan horse trying to suck you in under false pretenses only to spring a high-pressure sales pitch for God and Christianity upon you. LUCKY'S TREASURE is an overtly, unsubtle, very upfront Christian-themed movie, and unabashedly so. 6 minutes into the movie, including all of the opening credits, we're already saying grace at the table.
To be honest, I'm not a Christian. In fact I have no spiritual or religious aspect to my personality. I don't refer to myself as an "atheist" because my personal life experience has taught me that genuine atheists are the most appalling, overbearing, egotistical and arrogant people there are, uniformly insisting on foisting their attitudes upon others, LOUDLY. No Christians I have ever personally met have ever been half as insufferable as the most pleasant atheist. But honestly I only watched the movie because it had the word "treasure" in the title and description; I'm a nut case for stories about treasure. I'll probably suck into almost any kind of movie if there's something about treasure in it. It's a weakness.
Given the fact that it's a Christian-themed movie and every movie of this kind that I have ever seen is all about Christianity and primarily about God and the problems and resolutions the characters have in their relationships with God, most of such movies pretty much seem to be the same thing over and over again to me. The gold coin that constitutes the treasure in the picture is simply the MacGuffin that prevents the movie from being identical to all such similarly-themed movies.
In no way do I intend to denigrate LUCKY'S TREASURE. In the same way that revenge movies, as a random example, have their tropes and forms, Christian-themed movies have theirs. Christian-themed movies are specifically this way BECAUSE this is specifically the issues and subject matter that it's devoted audiences want to see; they would be disappointed if a Christian-themed movie WASN'T this way. I also think, as a similar example, that romance movies are the same glop repeated incessantly with each instance and simply change the specific actors who are alternately acting ridiculously or engaging in kissy-face.
For most of us who aren't Christians, I recommend avoiding this movie; it just isn't for you, and it was never intended to be. The treasure coin subplot is simply a pro forma element of this genre and for the rest of us doth not a story make.
For Christians who are into Christian-themed movies, LUCKY'S TREASURE seems to me to be a superb example of the genre and I would predict that you would enjoy it very much. Experimentally, I recommended it to a devout Christian acquaintance of mine and she loved it. And for this reason, as I rate movies based upon how well they hit the target they shot at rather than by some absolute scale, I gave this movie an 8; I have reason to believe it's a very good example of the genre but I am not an expert and this rating was my compromise.
I do notice that some other reviewers, who I suspect to be of the run-of-the-mill atheist variety, are using such phrases as "Christian hegemony" in their reviews, absurdly attacking the film for simply being what it is, even though it is entirely bereft of any deceit or duplicitousness that might justify it. LUCKY'S TREASURE nothing more or less than a simple, Christian-themed movie, as harmless as any movie of any genre CAN be.
I discordially invite such individuals to suck on something unspeakable and inappropriate. It's all you're good for. If you missed the fact that the very cover art of the movie itself referred to itself as being a "faith-friendly movie", that's nobody's problem but yours. While free speech protects your venom, I can assure you that nobody wants to hear your overt intolerance.
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