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- THE GRINCH Director Says Faith and Redemption Are At The ‘Core of the Film’
- Kathie Lee Gifford on Faith and Entertainment: ‘I’m on this Earth to Share the Good News’
- Faith-Filled THE CHOSEN Earns $13M At Box Office While Cannibalistic BONES AND ALL Bombs
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The film made over $5.3 million on 922 theatres in worldwide and domestic box office during wide release, finishing forty-sixth at the box office. A couple struggling to start a family makes a decision to adopt only to find more than their adopted child has come home with them. The film stars David Oyelowo, Storm Reid, Alfred Molina, Brian Tyree Henry, Byron Mann, Mykelti Williamson, and Shinelle Azoroh.
It’s a little bizarre that the “f” words only show up at the movie’s very intense climax. They may have made sense to the actors and filmmakers considering the intense situations happening during the climax, but they don’t fit with the rest of the movie. DON’T LET GO is an intense, ultimately satisfying thriller. Los Angeles Police Detective Jack Radcliff is stunned to learn that his beloved teenage niece, Ashley, is the victim of a murder-suicide involving his troubled brother and Ashley’s mother. At their funeral, Jack admits to his fellow police detective and friend, Bobby, that he prayed to God Ashley had not been murdered.
THE GRINCH Director Says Faith and Redemption Are At The ‘Core of the Film’
He doesn’t answer the first call, but he gets another call from her right away after he didn’t answer. Meanwhile, in the past, Ashley has called Bobby for a ride home, planning to have him protect her family. However, when they arrive, Bobby shoots Garret and Ashley's mother dead. In the present, Bobby, assuming that all Jack's evidence must come from an informant, demands to know who Jack's witness is.
The movie begins with Detective Jack Radcliff picking up his teenage niece, Ashley, after a movie when her father doesn’t show up like he promised. On the drive back to her house, it’s revealed that Jack gave Ashley a cellphone so that she could call him whenever she needs. While investigating, Jack is fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting. As he is dying, Ashley calls him and he orders her to call the police to arrest her father for drug possession, and tells her to call his partner Bobby if she thinks she is in danger.
Kathie Lee Gifford on Faith and Entertainment: ‘I’m on this Earth to Share the Good News’
Howard and Bobby have been helping internal affairs track down this conspiracy within the department. They take Jack to a discreet location to discuss the investigation. Bobby suddenly shoots Howard dead, revealing that he is a member of the Georgie conspiracy. He was tasked with eliminating Garret after Garret refused to assist them with a major drug deal.
He races to Ashley's home and finds Garret, Ashley’s mother and Ashley, as well as the family's dog, all shot dead. Despite consolation from his partner Bobby, who has been assigned the case, Jack blames himself; he is convinced that his stern talk with Garret sparked his horrific actions. Shortly thereafter, Jack gets a strange, garbled call from Ashley that indicates she might be in some trouble.
Faith-Filled THE CHOSEN Earns $13M At Box Office While Cannibalistic BONES AND ALL Bombs
Essentially, for example, the movie tells viewers, don’t let go of your loved ones and send your regrets to God in prayer. David Oyelowo as Uncle Jack, Mykelti Williamson as Bobby, and newcomer Storm Reid as Ashley are great. Even better, the movie has a strong Christian, moral worldview that extols prayer and promotes close family ties. However, parts of the plot are confusing, and the movie’s happy ending could have been even happier. Also, DON’T LET GO contains some very strong violence and some strong obscenities.
Homicide detective Jack Radcliff receives a call from his niece Ashley. Her father (and Jack's brother) Garret has forgotten to pick her up. Ashley and Jack eat at a diner, and Jack promises to talk to his brother, a former drug dealer on medication for bipolar disorder, about being responsible. The following night, Jack receives a short, garbled call from a frightened Ashley.
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The empty liquor bottle found near his brother’s body was not a kind that his brother ever drank, and the bottle of the alcohol he did drink downstairs was more than half full. A couple struggling to start a family makes a decision to adopt, only to find more than their adopted child has come home with them. A horror with heart dealing with parenting, adoption, trauma, violence and abandonment as a child and a family search for a place called home. At the funeral for Ashley and her parents, Jack confides in his detective friend, Bobby, that he prayed to God that the murders didn’t take place. The next night, Jack is surprised when his phone seems to be getting a call from Ashley.
As a result, MOVIEGUIDE® believes that DON’T LET GO has a strong Christian worldview that extols prayer to God and promotes close family ties. We also think, though, that DON’T LET GO could have been even stronger and more positive, with an even happier ending. DON’T LET GO, a small thriller, seems to play around with this idea of time, of past, present and future.
Jack hopes that these actions will prevent Ashley's murder; instead, only the date and specific details of the triple homicide change. Ashley altering the past also changes Jack's own past actions, meaning that he is not shot and is unharmed. When he realizes that Ashley's murder now occurred a day earlier, the day that Ashley is currently in, Jack tells Ashley the truth about their phone calls and her fate. Jack doesn’t know if he’s going mad or if he’s entered some kind of Twilight Zone. Whatever, he returns to the crime scene and discovers a flaw in the police reasoning that his brother was drunk the night of the homicides and committed murder and suicide.
Jack then receives a call from Ashley which he answers, holding up the phone for Bobby to hear. In the past, Ashley leads the pursuing Bobby to Jack's house. After briefly communicating with his future self in silence, the past version of Jack comes out and sees his blood-covered partner preparing to shoot Ashley. Jack shoots Bobby, erasing the future where Bobby holds Jack at gunpoint. Two weeks later, Jack begins receiving calls from Ashley's phone, even though the line has been disconnected. When he answers, Ashley speaks to him as though nothing is wrong.
He’s worried that his brother, Ashley’s father, might have relapsed after years of being sober from a previous alcohol and drug addiction. He rushes over to his brother’s house only to find everyone shot dead, including the family dog. The police rule the homicides as murder-suicide, blaming Ashley’s father. DON’T LET GO is an intense, satisfying thriller with a couple strong positive messages.
Jack soon realizes that he is somehow communicating through the phone with Ashley from several days before her murder. Ashley herself is oblivious to her fate and does not know she is speaking to Jack in the future. Jack does not tell Ashley the confusing truth, but hopes that with his guidance she can alter events to prevent the murder-suicide. From this point forward, the film cuts between Jack in the present and Ashley in the past. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. Jack meets with Howard and Bobby, who reveal that "Georgie" is not a person, but a group of crooked cops.
It was released on August 30, 2019, by OTL Releasing and BH Tilt. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted.
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