"Ham-fisted" and "venemous religious tract": Reviews for "September Dawn"

RottenTomatoes.com ^ | 08/23/07 | Various

[Reaganesque]

The long awaited movie that would "expose the Mormon deception" is out and critics are fairly unanimous: it is a ham-fisted, overwrought, poorly crafted, message movie with all the subtly of a jack hammer to the head. I imagine Michael Moore is green with envy.

[Reaganesque]

Ping!

[Reaganesque]

Condolences Ping!

[Poser]

Two different reviewers using the term “ham fisted” at the same time. Odd.

[restornu]

It is sad to read with such a tragic subject that would be mention of giggles!

[saganite]

It might be a hamfisted movie but the historical facts are not in doubt.

[Shermy]

Here’s a third ham-fisted,

“But the pic is ultimately less interested in understanding its Mormon characters than in demonizing them, and a ham-fisted obviousness undermines scene after scene”

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934474.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&nid=2562

[restornu]

So you saw the movie please share with us!

[Poser]

They didn’t even try to disguise the real motivation for the movie.

[Poser]

“Here’s a third ham-fisted,”

Somebody put out a talking points list.

[saganite]

No. I’m aware of the massacre though. Books, the forgotten media.

[Reaganesque]

The event did happen, that is true. Here's another quote from a reviewer who had a similiar comment:

Every religion, when scrutinized by a skeptic, is open to mockery. Tune in to South Park if you want satire that ridicules, sect by sect, all comers in the world of religious zealots especially Mormons.

But September Dawn isn't mockery. It's practically a call to jihad.

We can probably count the days until this shows up for sale on fringe Christian TV channels, its virtues trumpeted by some minister or other marketing his or her version of "The Truth."

There are facts here. It's thought-provoking in the ways it makes you consider how this event resembles that later 9/11.

But there's the unmistakable air of evil about this enterprise, and not just an atrocity the Mormon church caused to happen 150 years ago.

[donna]

Psst! Stop using “ham fisted”. They are on to us!

[Past Your Eyes]

I’ve been called a ham-fisted dirt mechanic before.

[Valpal1]

3 ham-fisted reviews? Starting to sound less like coincidence and more like plagarism (the stupid theory) or collusiion (the conspiracy theory).

Hmmm.

[Seruzawa]

Heh heh. It’s real funny when the Christians complain about anyone else’s history of blood and corpses. Pot meet kettle.

Then there’s the mountains of corpses from the last century created by the liberals’ favorite political philosophy. These lefty movie makers should really shut up about these things.

Oh, and I’m not a Mormon.

[Jeff Chandler]

“ham fisted”

Stop it already, you're making me hungry.

[SpaceBar]

The jarring MTV-style filmmaking is so distracting...

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who finds the drunkard's point-of-view cinematic style unwatchable.

[Jeff Chandler]

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who finds the drunkard's point-of-view cinematic style unwatchable.

What you said.

[loreldan]

So all the critics hate it? Sounds like a movie I’ll like.