Absolutely an amazing movie. ✝️

This movie received lower ratings not because it is bad movie but because most of movie critics and generally people today are agnostic.

A powerful message and some dramatic moments but the message is lost in inconsistent pacing ams melodrama.

This is a bizarre movie. The actors all speak in English, even though the vast majority are not native speakers. This decision leads to terrible, unpolished dialogue. I was attracted to the idea of Shia LaBeouf playing the eponymous character and assumed I’d be sitting in for an interesting story on the saint that wasn’t just a birth-to-death biopic. Instead, Padre Pio (LaBeouf) is on-screen for approximately 25% of the film while the rest concerns a small Italian town wherein a rag-tag band of socialists garner support from the townsfolk and win a surprising election. Abel Ferrara shoots this mostly in the form of young college-educated men extolling the virtues of socialism and the main landowner (Marco Leonardi) being absurdly cruel. There’s just something off about the movie. There’s no adhesion between the two stories and you just want the whole thing to be shot in Italian. Even if you had LaBeouf only speak in English, it would’ve been strange but stylish, in a way — note that LaBeouf sounds exactly like LaBeouf and does not put on any sort of accent. While I’d usually commend this decision — if the actor is not going to use the language of the character (here, Italian) it’s silly to use an Italian accent — the juxtaposition of Italian actors using accented English to LaBeouf’s unaccented English is just weird. (The best example of this whole issue done right is The Death of Stalin.) I still don’t know what this film is trying to be and I don’t care to concern myself with it any longer. It’s a bad, bad movie.

Confusing, unpolished thoughts scrambled together. It’s not about padre pio. Misleading

Great movie for followers of Catholisism

It's sad that the latest great Saint the world has seen was completely misrepresented. He had such a rich life in terms of intimacy with God, and all the social aspects deviate from the essence of his ministry. The outdated effects in terms of cinematography and music are out of context, unbalanced in terms of complexity, and give a bad perception of the merciful Father Pio. One thing is to portray a character, another thing is to provide incorrect information. The movie should even be called "Father Pio". What a lack of respect for him and believers who had him as a model of life

I know the story of St. Padre Pio relatively well, and the trailer tells much more about it than the movie itself. Two stories with almost no connection. Anyone who doesn't know about the post-World War I scenario in Italy and the story of Padre Pio will finish the movie knowing the same thing. Sad.

I think this movie was deeper than most people appreciate. I thought the Padre Pio performance was "period appropriate" for post WWI. His hauntings from the demonic were stunning.

The decision to circumnavigate its titular character makes one wonder why this movie was ever made in the first place.

I give this movie a generous 1 star. It gives little to no insight into who Padre Pio was or why he became a saint. There is a separate story being told that appears to have nothing to do with padre pio. The second story is dark, depressing and boring. If your suffering from insomnia I recommend you watch padre pio.

It felt like 2 movies in 1. Very sloppy. Shia's performance is very good but was limited while the movie tried to balance another story. We still don't know too much about Padre Pio after seeing the film. If the movie was just about Padre Pio, it would have been much better.

Confusing. Not really much about the life and ministry of the priest.

Very well acted and beautifully shot. However it seemed like a waste of Shia's talent. He only had about 14 minutes of screen time where he was doing the same 3 things and he spoke mostly in Latin. It depicted very little about who Pio Padre was and what made him special. The dialog also seemed to not match the time and location, I don't think people said "you know" in every sentence like people do now. The lazy script writing took me out of the drama at times - it was not believable. This movie could have been so much better if it was written and featured the main actor.

I loved it. Acting was on point. Good story line about internal struggles.

So Hollywood is all about representation these days, but when it's time to make a movie about an Italian priest, they put the very american Shia LaBeouf to intepret him. One star only for the pathetic double standard.

The movie was far too hard to follow. Seemingly didn't have a story and no real ending.

I went into this film hoping to see a story about Padre Pio's life; instead, I saw a jumbled series of unrelated vignettes. Sometimes one sees a vignette featuring Padre Pio. Other times, the film shows vignettes about poor townsfolk, a few socialists trying to affect the results of an election, and a rich landowner and his minions who are supposedly exploiting the townsfolk. The various scenes do not relate to one another. The film is very quiet with only occasional music to give hints to the emotions being wrought in scenes. The costumes and make up are very well done. The actors tried very hard to embody their roles. I found the film to be boring and even disgusting at a few points. I am very sorry that I wasted money to see this travesty of storytelling.

This movie is very disappointing, not really about Padre Pio, doesn't go into his early years enough, was more of a socialist movie about terrible land owners taking advantage of villagers. The sound and cinematography is terrible, worse than the old spaghetti westerns. Not what I expected, hopefully someone will make a better film on Padre Pio

Refreshing to see a movie like this.