Frailty (2001)

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I was excited to see this movie for the singular reason that it was directed by Bill Paxton. You remember him, the soldier in Aliens that says "Game Over MAN! Game Over!" and the wimp that pees his pants in True Lies. Frailty is a different topic altogether and a fascinating one at that. What if your dad was killing people because he thought god told him to?

At the beginning we meet a very desperate looking young man (Matthew McConaughy) sitting and waiting in F.B.I. Agent Wesley Doyle's (Powers Boothe) office. The young man turns out to be Fenton Meiks and he professes to know who the "Hand of God" killer is...his brother, Adam. Doyle is in disbelief, it's too easy to just have someone walk into the F.B.I. and turn a killer into authorities so easily. Fenton tells the whole story on their way to the spot where all the bodies are buried in a rose garden in his home town.

For the most part the rest of the story is told in flashback. Young Fenton (Matt O'Leary) and Adam (Jeremy Sumpter) have seeming happy childhoods even though having lost their mother at such a young age. Their father (Bill Paxton) is just as happy as any god fearing parent can be until he receives a message from an angel late at night. Father wakes the boys up in the middle of the night to tell them of their new mission in life which is to carry out the will of god by destroying demons before the end times are complete. Fenton immediately thinks his father has lost his mind and hopes it's all a bad dream. It's not. His father starts to collect magical weapons sent from god to dispatch the evil demons. And in the next vision a list of seven names.

After the initial madness his father displays Fenton is sure it has all blown over until one night when his father comes home with a crying ...

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