- Content: “Prayer Solves Problems”
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What You Need To Know:
THE VEIL seems hastily thrown together. Continuity within a scene doesn’t look like it was a top priority to the filmmakers. The cinematography and lighting also make it seem that the movie was carelessly filmed. Ultimately, the story and characters come across as flat, lackluster and unsatisfying. However, THE VEIL has a strong Christian, biblical worldview. The characters overcome sin and temptation through Scripture, faith and prayer. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children because of the supernatural attacks the Christian characters face in THE VEIL.
Content:
Very strong Christian, biblical worldview where people are dealing with temptation and evil but overcome them through Scripture, faith and prayer, God and God’s will powers the family through the situation, overcoming the evil they face, and the Devil is shown crumbling at the feet of God’s children, but the writer seems to sometimes inset his subjective opinion about what’s evil (for example, the movie promotes the idea that smart phones are a device that’s used by the Devil, but while some or many things accessed through smart phones can be evil, it would be hard to say that the connectivity they provide for families and communities is totally evil);
No foul language;
One instance where someone grabs the arm of another character, but they let go because their hand was getting burnt;
No sex;
No nudity, but there was one instance where a female in a bathing suit wears a see-through shirt over it;
No alcohol use;
A character offers weed to another person and the offer is refuted, but the marijuana is put in the protagonist’s bag; and,
Lying, references to getting divorced, a dysfunctional family is constantly disagreeing and arguing, and there’s implied teenage rebellion.
More Detail:
Everything starts on a calm afternoon. Kaylee is hanging out with her friends while her parents are at home discussing a family trip to their cabin. While discussing it, her father, Jim, mentions how he thinks it would be a good idea to break the news of their divorce to Kaylee while at the cabin.
Cut to Kaylee with her friend, Izzy. Kaylee is wrapped up in her studies, but Izzy wants her to go to a party. When Izzy mentions a boy to Kaylee, she says she’ll try to make it but makes no promises.
When Kaylee makes it back home, she tells her mother about going out to Izzy’s to study. However, her mother says she thinks Izzy is a bad influence. However, Kaylee doesn’t listen to her mother’s warning.
The family soon sets off to go up to their cabin. While driving, Kaylee starts to hear some weird voices whispering to her. She shrugs it off and tries to enjoy their family trip. Once they make it to the cabin, they all head inside. They sit down for dinner, where Kaylee’s dad decides to break the news of the divorce to Kaylee.
Distraught with the news of the divorce, Kaylee heads outside to get some air. While outside, she meets a boy named Noah. He introduces himself, saying his parents just bought a cabin up the hill. He convinces Kaylee to hang out again with him.
She meets up with Noah to hang out at the beach. A little bit later, she goes to a campfire with him. The more she hangs out with Noah, the more she opens up to him. However, while hanging out at the campfire, Noah tries to give Kaylee some drugs. She refuses them.
However, the next morning her father finds the drugs in her backpack. Her parents are upset, and that leads Kaylee to bring them to Noah. They confront him, but he denies it. After a heated confrontation, Kaylee’s family heads back home for dinner.
Noah suddenly shows up to their house. Slowly, everything starts to turn in a sinister direction. Noah whispers in the ear of Kaylee’s mom, Rebecca, and causes her to freak out. Rebecca’s Bible also goes missing. Before too long, they decide to cut their vacation short and leave. Unhappily for them, their predicament follows them home.
THE VEIL seems hastily thrown together. There are scenes where continuity is seemingly thrown out the window. The color is off between shots and so is the lighting. It happens periodically throughout the movie, but each time it happens, it reminds the viewer of how hastily thrown together it was. That makes sense when you look into the director, who according to IMDb, has already released 15 movies in 2025, with one more slated for later this year. One may wonder if that pace is causing oversight in regard to the quality of his movies.
Thus, THE VEIL is poorly made, flat and lackluster. It looks cheaply made and is unsatisfying.
However, the movie has a strong Christian worldview. Throughout the movie, the characters deal with temptation and evil. Happily, they overcome these problems due to their faith and prayer. God and God’s will is what powers the family through the situation, overcoming the evil facing them. Also, while the Devil does rear his ugly head, he crumbles at the feet of God’s children. Despite this, the Writer/Director sometimes inserts his own subjective opinion when it comes to defining evil/sin in the world. Some of what he says has merit, but other things don’t. For example, the movie promotes the idea that smart phones are a device that’s used by the Devil. Some or many things accessed through smart phones can be evil. However, it would be false to conclude that the connectivity smart phones provide for families and communities is totally evil.
MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children because of the supernatural attacks that the Christian characters face in THE VEIL.
