Review: “Father Stu” biopic plays like an ad for Mark Wahlberg’s piety
I can’t say all that much about the nuance of Ross’s screenplay, because a lot of what’s spoken, at least by Wahlberg, is imperfectly intelligible, thanks to a mumbling delivery by the film’s star. It’s a performance that takes the character from a buff, cocky, mustachioed young boxer-turned-wannabe-actor to a dying man.
“God saw something in you worth saving,” a friend tells Stu, after a mysterious, Christlike stranger has appeared next to the protagonist in a bar . That’s where another apparition — of a beatific woman, surrounded by hazy, white light — convinces Stu to become a priest.Let’s not dwell on the question of whether someone being worth saving implies that others are not. The film is filled with theological arguments that, while accepted by many Catholics, are fair grounds for debate.
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