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There's a lot of supporting characters who get a chance to shine and no one grasps the opportunity more than Omar Sy, stealing scenes left, right and centre but a special mention also has to go out to Benedict Cumberbatch for the part he plays in this - unexpectedly brilliant.

It’s entertaining stuff, with a subversive swagger and a cheekiness that is not generally associated with films of faith. But the cheerfully disorderly tonal collision – the film combines levitating robed stoners getting high on homegrown ‘lingon weed’ with harrowing scenes of brutality and crucifixion – may be a turn-off to the more conservative end of the audience spectrum for Christian cinema. As with his previous film, the all-Black Western The Harder They Fall, Samuel filters a well-worn genre through a Black lens, and has a great deal of fun doing so.

It certainly won’t work for everyone, but the picture’s energy is infectious, thanks in part to Samuel’s self-penned score (augmented by funk classics like The Jackson Sisters’ ’I Believe In Miracles’, and The Jones Girls’ ’Nights Over Egypt’). It’s perhaps best approached with the understanding that, while the film’s foundation of faith is genuine, absolutely nothing is sacred.