War Room

I remember back in the days of VHS tapes and no internet, we relied on word of mouth and what our local video rental store attendant advised us on. If that failed or was unavailable, we scrolled through the multitudes of tapes on the video shelves in the rental and tried to make a decision based on the names.

That said, I can imagine running into a tape titled The War Room! I would have exclaimed: “An action movie!  Finally!”

The beginning of the movie will still lead you on as it starts with guns blasting, battlefields blazing and numerous war scenes before the narrator’s voice finally takes over.

In case you have guessed from the above rhetoric, this movie is not an action movie. It is not even a romantic or a historic drama but a Christian movie. Yup, a Christian movie but kudos to the producers and directors, it is not your normal run-of-the-mill Christian movie.

The movie is about a young African American woman struggling with caring for her young daughter and coping with her argumentative but successful husband. The marriage was literally heading for the rocks until she met an old lady who taught her not to fight her husband but fight for him by going to the Lord in prayers.

The scriptwriter incorporated the spiritual aspect of the movie in such a subtle manner that non-Christians are fully engrossed before they  realize it’s a Christian movie and they are rooting for the family so much that even after the realization, they would still continue watching.

The movie was also a sleeper hit and still continues to gather both secular and non-secular fans.