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The Fighting Temptations (2003)
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Reviews Counted:105
Fresh:44
Rotten:61
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: The music is the only saving grace in this predictable and eager-to-please comedy.
Theatrical Release:Sep 19, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $30,213,026
Synopsis: Darrin Hill (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) has just lost his job with a New York advertising firm and bill collectors are chasing him all over the city. But just when he thinks his luck has completely run... [More]
Starring: Cuba Gooding, Beyonce Knowles, Mike Epps, Latanya Richardson
Director: Jonathan Lynn
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Reviews for The Fighting Temptations
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The indifferent gospel music that permeates the movie never solidifies with the dramatic might that the genre is known for... Full Review |
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Although there are plenty of positive, feel-good elements to this movie, they are outweighed by missed opportunities to do something more valuable. Full Review |
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C- |
...the plot's stupid, the writing's bad, the acting is barely professional, but the movie isn't evil. Full Review |
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You might think this prodigal would learn to take responsibility for his lies ... or humbly accept the consequences of his crimes and change. Nope. Full Review |
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3/4 |
As a romantic comedy...neither exceptional nor groundbreaking. But as a musical, the movie bursts with foot-stomping, arm-swaying, finger-snapping gospel music. Full Review |
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4/5 |
The Fighting Temptations is a movie that will soften even the most cynical moviegoer. You can see most of it coming a mile away, and it still works. Full Review |
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Down-home, good-natured sense of humor, but a sitcom-ish sentimentality often veering between Sunday sermonizing and silliness. Full Review |
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hopelessly sub-standard feel-good fare Full Review |
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3/5 |
All about the music, and you'd have to be truly tone-deaf not to respond to its soaring harmonies and spirited spirituality. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
It feels more like an artificial fable than a story we can sink our teeth into. Full Review |
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Cuba Gooding Jr. [is] so animated a performer that he even appears to be overacting on this movie's poster. Full Review |
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