Hereaticky

Hugh Grant has transited into evil characters well.

Justify your religion. That's the point of the movie. Two Mormon girls visit Mr Reed, who knows a lot more about their own religion than they do, and also raise several red flags immediately. However, it's too late at they are caught in his game as he tries to demonstrate the true power of religion, complete with miracles.

Is this movie anti-religious? I wouldn't say so, although I could easily see others saying it is. It does question the foundation of many beliefs, but no more so than many other athetists have pointed out, and indeed religious scholars already know about, and we still have religion here, don't we? Indeed, you can easily say "well, yes, but despite all those other religions, mine is true".

So what we get is a bit of a character study of what does one man who thinks he knows what the right religion do when confronted by people who believe in another? Try to dismantle their beliefs so they accept his. His wider point is one I've made myself, but is only half the story (I will refrain at the moment explaining more under the pretence of spoilers).

Hugh Grant is lovely and menacing, and Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East are indeed the two women are are also in this movie opposite him. Not to say they are bad at their job, just that they aren't really given much to do that isn't just reacting to what is going on around them.

There are many movies about religion, and this is one of them.

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