It's worth the price of admission just to see Robert Duvall's tour de force performance. His preaching scenes are potent, realistic, and thoroughly entertaining. A well-deserved Oscar nomination. The movie itself is quite absorbing, directed with a very patient hand by Duvall. Very realistic, and has some similarity to "Sling Blade," but it is just not as powerful. The ending struck me as anticlimactic, and didn't make as strong an impact as it could have. Also, I thought the scene with Billy Bob Thornton and the tractor was just silly. See the movie, though, for it provides a great character study of a deeply religious but flawed man.
Review of The Apostle
