Is Heaven for Real?
Review by Al Menconi, April 16, 2014 I just watched the best and most politically incorrect “Christian” movie since Charlton Heston Played Ben Hur. I’m serious! Heaven Is for Real isn’t the typical “Christian movie” where the acting is stiff and amateurish nor does the storyline club you into submission with a hellfire and brimstone message. No, this well written and wonderfully acted film asks questions as it presents evidence. Do you believe? Heaven Is for Real is based on the true story of the four-year-old son of a small town preacher from Nebraska. The little boy almost dies of appendicitis and when he is being operated on he goes to Heaven and meets Jesus and some people he couldn’t possibly have known from before. He also shares vivid descriptions of what he saw and experienced. Is it real? When he survives the operation, as a normal four-year-old, he doesn’t get excited and blurt out everything he saw. But his story comes out in little sn