A nuanced, occasionally beautiful work, though not flawless.
End of the Spear (2006)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:20
Rotten:29
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Shoddy filmmaking and a lack of character development derail what could be a potentially compelling tale.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense sequences of violence.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Jan 20, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $11,703,287
Synopsis: Mincayani is born into the most violent society ever documented by anthropologists, the Waodani in the eastern rainforest of Ecuador. As he grows he learns what every Waodani understands, he must... Mincayani is born into the most violent society ever documented by anthropologists, the Waodani in the eastern rainforest of Ecuador. As he grows he learns what every Waodani understands, he must spear and live or be speared and die. Mincayani's world changes when he and his family kill five missionaries, Nate Saint, Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Pete Fleming and Roger Youderian. This incident propels Mincayani's family group down an extraordinary path that culminates in them not only departing from violence, but also caring for the enemy tribe they had once violently raided. Nate Saint's son Steve was a boy when his father and friends were killed. He returns to the Waodani as an adult and finally learns from Mincayani what happened during the last minutes of his father's life. Together Mincayani and Steve find that what Nate accomplished in his death gave them both a new life and Steve's family becomes part of Mincayani's family. --© Official Site [More]
Starring: Louie Leonardo, Chad Allen, Stephen Caudill
Starring: Louie Leonardo, Chad Allen, Stephen Caudill
Director: Jim Hanon
Director: Jim Hanon
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Reviews for End of the Spear
Under Jim Hanon's direction, the film manages to get its point across without coming off as heavy-handed or overtly religious.
Though the final steps in Mincayani's awakening are crudely sketched, the film's conclusion will stir even the nondevout.
End of the Spear is a childish and visually repetitive movie, ham-fisted, proselytizing and overtly simplified.
Jim Hanon has made this movie before, as the documentary Beyond the Gates of Splendor. It was a better film
The Waodanis await a film that humanely considers their conversion as intensely as this film single-mindedly sanctifies those who turned them away from killing.
Even if it polarizes viewers in the beginning, we can come to appreciate how the tribes and the missionaries' families found piece, which is the closest a second hand account can come to giving us a similar experience.
One of the best films ever made about the courage and compassion that is at the heart of the Christian path of nonviolence.
A crowd-pleasing entertainment based on the true story of missionaries who ultimately persuaded an indigenous tribe in the Ecuador jungles to stop spearing one another.
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January 19, 2006:
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