Courageous | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

Yeah, it's still a preach-to-the-choir movie, but this choir doesn't really see itself on the big screen very often, so don't begrudge them a film where the action hero cop stops and prays for guidance before big gun battle. It happens.

It takes a certain touch to pull it off, and here, the serviceable cast just doesn't have it in them.

The many topics raised - gangs, drugs, immigration, absentee parents, poverty - are examined with didacticism and platitudes instead of by mining their inherent complexities.

Overplotted and understructured, "Courageous" is a slog to get through at 130 minutes.