Salvation Boulevard (2011)

There are an awful ot of good actors in this movie, and yet it does not add up to a good movie.  I will say this, as pandemic watching goes, it does not pull any brain muscles to watch, but I would not recommend it.  Greg Kinnear stars as a newly born-again Christian and former Deadhead whose faith is tested when he witnesses his pastor, Pierce Brosnan, “accidentally” shooting famous atheist professor Ed Harris. Brosnan wants Kinnear to take the fall. But Kinnear has no interest in that plan and has some unlikely allies: a pot-smoking campus security guard played by Marisa Tomei, and his gruff ex-Navy father-in-law Ciarán Hinds, who suspects that there’s more to the crime than the smug Brosnan is letting on. It’s hard to say what’s worst: the narrow conception of what a Christian is (or a Deadhead, or a college professor, for that matter), or the flat and largely predictable dialog and plot trajectory.  Only the step daughter comes up with surprises.  The result is like a Coen brothers movie without any wit, style, or clever twists.  However, for lazy Sunday afternoon watching it fit the bill.