90 Minutes in Heaven

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A few months ago I watched a foreign movie from the middle east that was in English (well, American so it was close) and after about ten minutes the movie turned into a rant about Barack Obama (who I think is the Canadian president or summat {only joking}), the American Way, freedom, the West, the East and F.W. Woolworths {still joking}. It seemed to be an ISIS enrolment film or some such. Well, this movie was the same except for the Christians (or some other religious cult). As soon as the words 'We all believe in Christ, right' hit the floor I kinda lost interest but as the main actor (Haydn Christenson) should have light sabre up his cardigan (Haydn plays a Colin) I stuck with it and wished I hadn't. The story is unbelievable beyond belief and seriously if you want to see THE worst piece of acting in the history of bad acting watch when the priest find out Haydn was alive, it is truly magnificent ... Unfortunately the score select does not go below 1 or this would have got a -5. End of line.

I saw "90 Minutes in Heaven", starring Hayden Christensen-Takers, Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars:Episodes 2&3; Kate Bosworth-Straw Dogs_2011, Superman Returns; Fred Dalton Thompson-Sinister, Law & Order_tv and Dwight Yoakum-The Crank movies, Sling Blade. This is a religious and inspirational movie. It is also based on a book written by Don Piper, who claims it is a real true story that happened to him-I say that because, so far, no one has come forward to actually verify his claims. That is where faith comes in. If you have it, you should enjoy this film. If you don't, you will probably find other explanations for what happened-I have already heard some, myself. Anyway, in case you are not familiar with the story, Hayden plays Don, a preacher with a wife, Kate, and 3 children. In 1989, as he was driving from a church seminar in the Huntsville area, he was hit by an 18 wheeler and pronounced dead at the scene. The coroner has to officially pronounce his death before the police can move his body so a tarp was thrown over the entire wreck. Another preacher from the same conference was passing by and decided to stop & pray over the dead body. As he was praying and singing, he heard Hayden start singing too and so he hollered for the paramedics to come check his vital signs again. Hayden was pulled to safety and taken to the hospital. He had lots of damage, including shattered bones in his arms & legs. It took lots of surgeries and months of recovery before he could go home but he also had other problems, such as loss of faith. He believed that during the 90 minutes that he was pronounced dead, he was in Heaven. If he was at the gates of Heaven, then why had he been returned to the pain & suffering that he had to go through back on earth? Why couldn't he have just stayed in Heaven? He just did not understand. Fred is the preacher that tries to make some kind of sense out of what happened to Hayden and help him understand his purpose in coming back. Dwight plays a lawyer that tries to get money for Kate and her rising medical bills. Just before the end credits, the real Don Piper is shown talking to a congregation and as the end credits start, pictures of the accident and Don during his recovery are shown. It's rated "PG-13" for accident & injury images and has a running time of 2 hours & 1 minute. It's not one that I would buy on DVD-one viewing was enough-but it would be a good rental.

. . . impoverished Christian ministers, among others. Texas allows unqualified convicts to drive state-owned prison semi-trucks on top of innocent out-of-state mid-sized cars, then limits medical expenses for crushed drivers returning from Heaven to just $250,000 per pastor, forcing the clergymen to rehab at second-rate hospitals and move into smaller homes. Amid this scandal, former Texas governor Rick Perry had to quit running for U.S. president the week that 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN came out. As HEAVEN illustrates, Life is cheap in the American South. Lethal injections happen there more than everyplace else on Earth combined, with the Authorities debating whether or not victims are "really most sincerely dead" for hours on end. (One gentleman recently returned from Heaven for a few minutes AFTER his execution, but did not enjoy even the level of health care of Pastor Don in this movie, and got recalled upwards before he could Testify in support of Reverend Don.) History attests that Jesus also was executed, but since Texas did not have the Death Penalty then, it happened elsewhere. Future King David sang in a psalm once that one minute in Heaven equals 100 years in Texas (I may be paraphrasing a little here), which makes Pastor Don about 9,064 now in Texas years!

The movie at best, tells the events in the book. In the tradition of adaptations, it skims over events with little depth. The essence of the story, was to encourage Christians about heaven. The movie however is a medical drama, that serves to educate viewers on hospital affairs. The encounter in heaven, is put at the end of the movie as an after thought. The director choosing to dwell in the emotional scenes featuring the family. The movie has bloopers. The scene where Don advises a young man with fixator, did not involve his family in the audience. Because Don was chaperoning a group of teenagers to an auditorium. The movie did not inspire or show the motivational stories that resulted from Don telling the world his ordeal.It did not even feature a crisis of faith for Don.

This is not an action Movie, it's more than this, but you have to be willing to catch the message, which is powerful. This is about faith, love and friendship. Is he going to give up, the guy survived the unimaginable, nobody under any "normal" circumstances survives any thing like that, who helped him, 90 minutes gone, declared and confirmed dead by the police and the rescue team, but then one men, a pastor, insisted to pray for "the gone", please don't put this movie in a drawer, there is so much more than entertainment here and worth to think about, the men survived to leave us a testimony, greater than anything, watch carefully

I have seen suffering like this and have been in the wife's shoes and this is very real. You have to understand the pastor's experience in heaven made his recovery more difficult (that might be a spoiler). His suffering was hard to watch but it was realistic. The spiritual struggle, financial trouble, and family trauma is just how it is. A near death experience, even without seeing heaven, makes you wish you had gone all the way, just to escape the suffering here and the suffering of dying again. It is honest and if you want to be prepared for tragedy here and heaven afterwards, it is worth the slow torture of watching this. It is better than doing yourself. The legal problems were also so true to life. Watch and learn and you might not have to live it. The last half hour is worth and since I see honesty throughout this film, I believe that is also likely the truth.

I read the book and it was great and powerful....but the movie was terrible! if I were Mr. Piper I would not have allowed this awful movie to represent my story. The title is about Mr. Piper going to heaven for 90 minutes, but in this movie you get a few minutes of his tale at the end of the movie...and he speaks without any emotion about it at all. Movie lacked credibility and lacked anything to do with Christ...the pastor in the movie seemed cold and without any relationship with Jesus or his family. The book was all about the pastor and how the Lord worked a miracle in his life, but the author of this movie told the story and decided to leave out anything to do with God and the pastor's relationship with Him. God was the reason Mr. Piper is still alive today...but the movie does not want to identify this main truth. Horrible acting and dead movie.