Film Review – Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

“Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.” began life as a short film from Adamma Ebo, with the writer/director taking 15 minutes of screen time to confront certain aspects of megachurch culture and leadership, playing with a mockumentary approach to examine character insecurities and misbegotten behavior. Ebo returns to the material with a feature-length take on the topic, presenting the helmer with a different creative challenge, now tasked to expand on her ideas and generate a larger world for the characters and their raging issues. Those expecting a riff on religious predators with a Christopher Guest-ish approach would be wise to alter expectations for “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.” It’s an amusing endeavor with big personalities and strange con games, but Ebo doesn’t go broad enough with the movie, working to find a middle ground between laughs and pathos, which creates interesting moments of friction in a picture that feels a little too scattered at times to hit its intended target. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com