God's Army

From Zion Films, a company dedicated to making "movies by Mormons, for Mormons," comes what must stand as the first commercial film to look seriously at the lives of Mormon missionaries. And while it doesn't look too deeply — there's surprisingly little talk about the actual tenets of the Mormon faith — it does address a few objections any future member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints might have before joining up. The story centers around 19-year-old Brandon Allen (Matthew Brown), a lifelong Mormon who leaves his troubled home in Kansas for two years of missionary work in sin-soaked L.A. He's teamed up with ailing Elder Dalton (Richard ...