Law enforcement officers Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, and their partners stand up to the worst the streets have to offer with confidence and focus. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly prepared to tackle: fatherhood. They know that God desires to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, but their children are beginning to drift further and further away from them. When tragedy hits home, these men are left wrestling with their hopes, their fears, their faith, and their fathering. Can a newfound urgency help these dads draw closer to God... and to their children?
Fails to answer the more pressing question of why religious sagas such as this treat subtlety as a sin.
– Nick Schager,
Village Voice,
1 Oct 2011
rotten:
Devolves into over-the-top drama and a suffocating heavy-handedness.
– Keith Staskiewicz,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct 2011
rotten:
Overplotted and understructured, "Courageous" is a slog to get through at 130 minutes.
– Paul Brunick,
New York Times,
2 Oct 2011
rotten:
The many topics raised - gangs, drugs, immigration, absentee parents, poverty - are examined with didacticism and platitudes instead of by mining their inherent complexities.
– Gary Goldstein,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Oct 2011
rotten:
It takes a certain touch to pull it off, and here, the serviceable cast just doesn't have it in them.