Movie review: Fireproof

SPOILER ALERT: I watched Fireproof last night, on the recommendation of a friend. It was a pretty epic movie. Basically, it's about a firefighter named Caleb who is consistently lauded as a hero by his colleagues, but whose marriage is on the verge of crumbling.

However, through the combination of a newfound faith and a 40-day "Love Dare" given to him by his father, he manages to reconcile with his wife and the two end up renewing their wedding vows in a beautiful park by a lake -- the site of a former church summer camp (complete with conveniently placed cross) -- as the credits roll.

However, one thing didn't quite make sense...in the end, Katherine (the wife) finally forgives her husband not after he completes the dare, but after she finds out that he, not the doctor who she had been flirting with, had footed the bill for thousands of dollars' worth of medical supplies for her mother, who is recovering from a stroke. So...moral of the story: the true way to win your wife back is not to show you love her (although that helps) but to make an outrageous financial gesture?

Regardless, it was a pretty good movie, and it had some suspenseful moments, including a rescue scene where the firefighters flirt with death as they try to remove a wrecked car from train tracks -- with the train quickly approaching -- as well as Caleb's heroic rescue of a young girl from a burning house as the structure collapses around them.