I really love the movie.
It is a very high-budget one, so the quality is very good.
It is very moving emotionnally.
It takes some liberties with history (the legendary history of Gorostieta, for eg), and compress the time, and yes it forget the tragic end of the last christiada, and the last christeros being excommunicated.
It is the choose of the scenario.
For me, it was an incredible way to do more research on the subject. I know before of the existence, but not the details.
We should add that the controversed founder of the Legionaries of Christ was a child when the Christiada takes place. And this influenced him greatly to concept them.
It introduces many people, outside of Mexico, to the Christiada, which is an unknown and taboo part of history, because people raised up in the defense of the Church and their religious freedom.
And as we lived in very dechristinized societies, which claims to have “liberated” themselves from the dark and immorals chains of Catholicism, this history is counter-popular.
As for France, the medias critics are mostly against the film’s message. One catholic newspaper (la Croix) even said that unfortunately some people will draw parallel with same-sex marriage “debate” and contestation and will found justification in their opposition. And that the christiada is not christian, because the Gospel forgive all violence.
The diffusion in theaters was small, and the public essentially Catholics who came thanks to publicity on the catholics networks.
