I tend to have problems with films that lean to heavily on forced emotionality and an overabundance of faith in order to get the audience to connect and Henry Poole is Here is one of those films. It's overly preachy and refuses to stop asking the question why don't you believe in god? All the while displaying alleged miracle after alleged miracle in order to prove his existence.

To crib from an IMDB review: "Henry Poole is Here is about as dogmatic as The Passion of the Christ without the violence. Christians may like Mark Pellington's little homily about hope, but I suspect those who enjoyed his X-Files-like Mothman Prophecies will be disappointed by the lack of mystery and the surfeit of plain old preachy religiosity..."

The performances were decent and much better than a film like this deserves so I can't totally trash it, but Im still not recommending it.

Grade C-

Way too slow-moving and annoying to watch. I swear, there must have been at least 10 montages each lasting 2 minutes or more. Henry would witness or hear about a miracle, montage, another miracle, montage, rinse and repeat.

Eeek. Sounds bad. I hate preachy religious movies. I like both Luke Wilson and Radha Mitchell, but this doesn't seem very good. My co-workers that watched it, one of whom is super-religious, didn't like it all that much.