I can't say it was a bad movie. I just can't say it was an original or good movie. I think that's what disappoints me with it.The original Encounter was like a parable. I didn't take it literally, and the simple staging worked well with the metaphorical presentation that made you think about you and your personal relationship with your savior. This one drowns in scenery and detail. We have the Boxing Day typhoon in Thailand as history. We have a whole background story of action from a mafia movie, the drug dealer, the cop, etc. We have the lush and lovely background of Phukett, Thailand and those beautiful beaches. Worst of all, we have the not at all well done fight scenes. All of that distracted from the beautifully simple message of the original.

Poor acting, weak plot and despite going to a beautiful place the camera work is also poor. Do American people really think that an American DEA officer can use a gun here? He would be executed for murder if he killed someone. Just the same as if a Thai drugs officer started shooting people in Miami. Most Thai people cannot even read English so the badge hanging around his neck means no more than a badge written in Thai would mean in America. Really stupid story. After that low beginning it just rapidly goes downhill. I would like to end with a complement, to be polite and put a nice sentence of mitigation but there is no saving grace in this film. It is pathetic religious propaganda.

Well, I guess we should all get saved in our young teen years and then live life like we want to without worrying about Hell since evidently the message in this movie is that you can do just that and still make it to Heaven. Since when did accepting a gift from the God (Eternal Life) become a forced ticket to Heaven even if you serve Satan from that point on? The first movie was good, but this movie is trying to appeal to worldly views and Hollywood views of God that everyone makes it to Heaven so long as they cried "Lord Lord" (Matthew 7:21) at one point or another in their life than they are guaranteed a ticket to Heaven, period… because we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings and we have to treat our congregations and brethren with kid gloves so not to offend anyone because our society is stuck on the pacifier and won't read what the Bible says. Not everyone who cries Lord Lord will enter into heaven but only he who DOES THE WILL of my Father who is in heaven. I am pretty sure doing Heroin and dying of an overdose is NOT doing the will of God. And just because you cried Lord Lord at the age of 14 and asking God into your life and then living for Satan and dying in your sins outside of the will of God would be a big disqualifier. Also, the movie takes about "Free Will" if you ask Jesus into your life and then you are FORCED into heaven even after living for Satan and worshipping Satan, than the movie contradicts itself. People like to bring up how God promised eternal life and it wouldn't be eternal if you could be "unsaved". Yes, God promised eternal life, to everyone, and it is up to you where you want to spend it. People like to bring up how in Roman's it says "nothing can separate a Christian from God's love". This passage which is a common defense for eternal security has nothing to do with it because if the Christian stays a Christian or not God will love them. In John it talks about how nothing can remove a Christian from God's hand and this is true, because as the movie talked about, you have free will and you must chose to leave God and to turn your back on him and follow Satan and the path to eternal torment. In essence, you will not be removed from his by force; you will choose to leave it under your own free will by accepting Satan as your God.

I just watched Paradise Lost and, I admit, I cried a few times. I liked it just as much as the first (maybe even a bit more). The conclusion was a lot better than the first. I know that the characters were different from the norm of what you'd see at an American cafe, but each character represented the experiences of multitudes of people around the world: empty and addicted to drugs, believing that...pain is an illusion/that through thousands of lifetimes, one can get redeemed, selling drugs to get rich, sold into sexual slavery, full of bitterness, sadness and despair/losing one's faith due to loss of a child or loved one, etc. Good to see David A.R. White playing the role of the police officer in Thailand. That Jason Statham-esque scene was well-coordinated by the way!