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Guns don’t kill people — God does
In The Reliant, only firearms and faith (in that order) can save Kevin Sorbo’s family from the antifa apocalypse
The Reliant is a film that raises several deep ethical and theological questions: Why does God let bad things happen to good people? Can a Christian kill in self-defense? Is it dishonest to market a film as an epic gun battle between Kevin Sorbo and an unwashed antifa horde when he dies in the first 15 minutes and the rest is mostly teens talking religion in the woods?
It opens in a hospital. Jack (Bryan “The Boz” Bosworth), a scraggly looking dirtbag, is taking his daughter to the ER after an accident. The surgeon Rick (Kevin Sorbo) tells Jack he can smell the alcohol on his breath and says he should wait in the lobby.
Jack gets belligerent and when two police officers show up, a dustup ensues. He manages to grab a gun from one of them, but after a tense standoff, he lowers it. As he’s being hauled off to jail, he starts muttering about “My Faith,” which is presumably the name of his young daughter.
Seven years later, we rejoin Rick in his idyllic home in the suburbs of Zanesville, Ohio, where we’re introduced to his family.
