Below is an excerpt from The Dude on the Right’s full review of “Machine Gun Preacher.” Yup, there’s a lot of violence and badness happening in the Sudan, and Sam Childers is trying to do something about it…
…There isn’t a lot very pretty about this movie, only that no matter where they are, no matter the atrocities around them, sometimes the joy of children can bring light to the darkest days. It gives a brutal look, and I mean brutal, at the atrocities occurring in the Sudan, as well as intertwines a movie about a man, Sam, who is torn between his life in the safety of the United States with his wife and daughter or trying to help the innocents of a nation…