She ignored the troubles outside, and only worried about within. She turned her walk-in closet into a war room, and there she sat and prayed and prayed. Taking a cue from her late husband (who was a battle strategist during the Vietnam War) Miss Clara, who mostly speaks in hosanna soundbytes, discovered she needed a bunker in which to configure a plan of action. Alena Pitts and TC Stallings in War Room Photograph: PR When Elizabeth confesses that she is unhappy, and only attends church when it fits her schedule, Miss Clara explains how she found happiness. Her no-nonsense new client Miss Clara (Karen Abercrombie) wants to talk less about selling her house and more about Elizabeth’s relationship with Jesus. Elizabeth (Priscilla Shirer, a successful Christian minister in her first film role) is a hard-working real estate agent aware that her marriage is almost at its breaking point. The plot is an uninteresting melodrama with a tortoise’s pace, but this does allow the viewer plenty of time to scrutinize its odd logic. (Nothing tops The Identical, in which Elvis Presley’s long lost twin brother comes to redeem us all from sin.) The performers are professional and, while it’s set in dull interiors with flat TV lighting, it cuts together okay. War Room, which follows up the Kendricks’ very successful Fireproof and Facing the Giants, is, unfortunately, nowhere near as entertaining as some other of the recent low budget evangelical Christian films. He’ll even join your daughter for the big rope-skipping competition perfectly timed for the end of the movie. If you follow a precise prayer regimen (which remains vague in the film but all spelled out in supplemental materials available for purchase on the Kendricks’ website) there is no reason to believe that your husband won’t transform back into the man you fell for. These tactics, say Alex and Stephen Kendrick in their latest “faith-based” film War Room, will bring your husband back to you, and cast Satan from your home. What you need to do is surrender, go in the closet and pray. When you find his behavior upsetting and take him to task you are only protracting the struggle. I s your husband a self-centered jerk? Does he ignore your needs, pay no attention to your adorable daughter, scold you for giving financial help to your troubled sister? Does he have a wandering eye and come dangerously close to committing adultery? Is he embezzling from his job? Well, you should know that it’s all your fault.
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