Blu-ray Review – God Is a Bullet

Nick Cassavetes, the director of mild sauce movies like "The Notebook" and "The Other Woman," looks to get dark and mean with "God Is a Bullet." He handles an adaptation of Boston Teran's 1999 novel, which presents a bleak study of danger involving a father on the hunt to retrieve his kidnapped daughter from the clutches of a Satanic cult. It's an epic story handed an epic length by the production, with the picture running 155 minutes, which proves to be more time than Cassavetes really needs to explore this tale. He's after an extended appreciation of pain and suffering, and that's all "God Is a Bullet" really is, taking viewers willing to put in the time to the worst areas of the human experience. There's some exploitation, but nothing major. There's a pass at emotion, but it doesn't take. What's left is a seemingly endless revenge story brought to life by limited actors, while the helmer's obsession with bodily harm wears out its welcome quickly. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com