Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, but let's not get carried away here.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Slant Magazine by Andrew Schenker
The film is awash in blandly brown-toned cinematography, action scenes more violent than rousing, and a whole host of bathetic subplots.
New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
The actor (Garcia), whose banked anger has been a secret weapon since "The Untouchables" 25 years ago, paints a fascinating portrait of a man moved by fate.
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
Only Ruben Blades as President Calles and Bruce Greenwood as American Ambassador Dwight Morrow get out of this film with their acting dignity intact.
There's enough froth along the way to keep the memory of Will Ferrell's recent "Casa Di Me Padre" close at hand.
With its shameless melodrama, ghoulish violence, and scenes of Christians being slaughtered en masse in holy places for the crime of publicly being Christians, the religious drama For Greater Glory feels an awful lot like evangelical Tribulation dramas such as "Left Behind: The Movie" and "The Omega Code."
Village Voice by Nick Pinkerton
It is plodding, lazily filmed, gassy with James Horner's score, and pads its runtime only by way of tolling repetition.
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
The film is ultimately a stodgy, overblown and repetitive slog.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
In its use of locations and sets, it's an impressive achievement by director Dean Wright, whose credits include some of the effects on the "Lord of the Rings" films. If it had not hewed so singlemindedly to the Catholic view and included all religions under the banner of religious liberty, I believe it would have been more effective.
Some bad movies can make you feel awful for the people who made them and worse for the audience that shows up. The actors, the script, the camera: There's nowhere good they can go. For Greater Glory is that kind of bad movie: a total embarrassment.