He is hooked, obsessively so, on saving the Sudanese children, even if this means becoming a gun-toting hellion himself.Īre Childers's exploits genuinely humanitarian or just an adrenaline-fueled substitute for his earlier violence? This is the fascination of the story, but director Marc Forster and screenwriter Jason Keller take the easy way out by turning Childers into a Bible-thumping Rambo. By comparison, his life back in America, where he has also become a lay preacher, loses its luster. He builds them an orphanage and a schoolhouse. Soon he is providing shelter for terrorized Sudanese children. Now a successful construction company owner, Childers makes a relief trip to Uganda, where he detours into neighboring Sudan and witnesses the atrocities of the Lord's Resistance Army – a renegade militia that often turned children into rifle-toting soldiers by forcing them to kill their own parents. "Machine Gun Preacher," based on Childers's real-life exploits, sets up a fascinating story and then proceeds to make it increasingly less fascinating. Contemptuous of her do-goodism but sinking fast, he agrees to attend church with her and is forever transformed. His wife, Lynn ( Michelle Monaghan), a former stripper, has in the meantime become a devout Christian during Sam's incarceration. Just released from prison, he returns home to a familiar pattern of substance abuse and armed robbery.
Sam Childers ( Gerard Butler) is a Philadelphia ex-con with severe anger-management issues.
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