from Crosswalk.com
recommends PG-13 "The Brothers Bloom" is admirable in showing one character’s quest to free himself of a life of crime, but it falls short in suggesting that romance alone is the answer to Bloom’s problems.
The psalmist writes, “Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain” (119:36), and Proverbs states, “A greedy man stirs up dissension, but he who trusts in the Lord will prosper” (28:25). Caper films like this one are to be commended for embracing, even if inadvertently, biblical truths about dissension and selfish gain, but they never dwell on the other aspects of those verses—the call to embrace the rest of God’s guidance for a fulfilling life.
The end result is that caper films, even when enjoyable on the surface, as The Brothers Bloom often is, aren’t fully satisfying. For that, readers need more than a good movie. They need the Good Book.
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