McCracken on "Fireproof"

Brett McCracken has seen Fireproof, and he writes:

Turns out Fireproof was watchable (certainly moreso than its predecessor, Facing the Giants, which I couldn't watch with a straight face), though by no means was it good.

I didn't laugh as much during Fireproof as I did during Facing the Giants, and I only felt the urge to look away from the screen a few times. There were oodles of uncomfortably saccharine moments and heavy-handed digressions of overacting, but it was a huge, huge improvement over Giants. This makes me happy, but it neither excuses Fireproof for its numerous failures nor justifies it as a successful film.