Guardian - 22 January 2018, 15:47 (+ 2286 days 3 hours and 12 minutes) Movies & TV
Ejiofor is superb in this biopic of ousted Pentecostalist minister Carlton Pearson, but his moral conversion doesn’t go nearly far enoughChiwetel Ejiofor is electrifying from the pulpit in this biopic of Pentecostal bishop Carlton Pearson. It’s no wonder that Pearson’s ministry packed them in each week, television cameras in tow. When we first meet him he is a devout born-again Christian, and even if he’s exhausted on a late night flight he’ll save the soul of his seat passenger is she happens to be a lapsed Catholic at wits’ end and hungry for purpose.Though strict in his beliefs and a protege of the renown huckster Oral Roberts (who once told his congregation that God would strike him dead if he couldn’t raise $8m to bail out a real estate deal) it is clear that Bishop Pearson is a good man. It’s this fundamental goodness that gets him into trouble. Continue reading...