![]() Before you know it, he’s lost his well-paying job and is facing potential jail time for dirty double-dealing, but Elizabeth remains utterly unfazed. God promptly interrupts Tony’s dinner with a potential mistress by giving him a stomach ache, and sends him back into his wife’s arms. Once the evildoer is cast out of the house in a stirring, borderline psychotic monologue delivered by Elizabeth, everything changes. ![]() The multitude of problems in their marriage can be boiled down to one cause: Satan. As for the film’s advice to women who are beaten by their husbands, one of Elizabeth’s co-workers advises, “ Learn to duck so God can hit him.” Since the Kendricks have mistaken one-dimensional caricatures for people who exist in the real world, they forgot to provide Tony with any redeeming qualities that would make us want to root for his marriage. The film’s centerpiece sequence occurs early on, as Elizabeth sits weeping in her closet while pleading, “God, help him love me again.” This moment is heartbreaking for all the wrong reasons. ![]() There, she will summon God to help fight her battles, thus transforming the space into the titular “war room.” Her role as a submissive woman is to treat the man in her life with grace, which will eventually shame him into becoming a good person. Instead, she urges the long-suffering wife to go back home, empty out a closet and plaster the walls with Bible verses. When Elizabeth tries opening up about the unabashed cruelty she endures on a daily basis from her loathsome husband, Tony (T.C. Shirer) must be taught in extended conversations with her client-turned-friend, Miss Clara ( Karen Abercrombie). ![]() This is the lesson that real estate agent Elizabeth ( Priscilla C. Grappling with the gray areas in life is seen as a sign of weakness, while acting in one’s own best interest is nothing more than a sinful exercise in selfish pride. The film wants to evangelize by preaching an ideology that requires its followers to view the world in black-and-white terms. It has one single goal, which according to the Kendricks, is the only goal worth having. WAR ROOM is a vivid reminder that prayer is a powerful weapon.Spirituality can be a beautiful thing to explore in cinema, but “War Room” has no interest in engaging its audience on a personal level. Tony must decide if he will make amends to his family and prove Miss Clara’s wisdom that victories don’t come by accident. As Elizabeth tries to fight for her family, Tony’s hidden struggles come to light. But their lives take an unexpected turn when Elizabeth meets her newest client, Miss Clara, and is challenged to establish a “war room” and a battle plan of prayer for her family. While Tony basks in his professional success and flirts with temptation, Elizabeth resigns herself to increasing bitterness. Tony and Elizabeth Jordan’s world is actually crumbling under the strain of a failing marriage. Tony and Elizabeth Jordan have it all-great jobs, a beautiful daughter, and their dream house. Show the hit movie WAR ROOM in your church!įrom the award-winning creators of FIREPROOF and COURAGEOUS comes WAR ROOM, a compelling drama with humor and heart that explores the power that prayer can have on marriages, parenting, careers, friendships, and every other area of our lives.
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