I was fully prepared to give this a positive review. There were the typical issues that almost always seem to plague faith-based films such as low production values, amateurish acting, and awkward writing/pacing, but the bond of brotherly love that kept the endearing protagonists going in the face of adversity was uplifting and warm. I was genuinely having a good time at the theater. Then the ending happened... The final act is capped off by a sad event that was just exploitative and unnecessary. What bothered me wasn't so much that it happened, but rather how it was handled. The scene is montaged in with the film's emotional crescendo eliminating any sort of big payoff. Then to make matters worse the writers immediately tried to gloss over the act as if it never even happened by moving right along to the happy ending, robbing the moment of any sort of meaning. The whole thing was nothing more than a tasteless and even offensive attempt to manipulate tears out of the audience. It added nothing to the movie and only served to diminish my enjoyment of it. I now better understand the whole Mass Effect 3 ending debacle. I was also disappointed with the game's conclusion, but at the same time I just couldn't understand how so many people found those last 10 minutes or so able to overwrite all the previous hours of enjoyment that were had before hand. I think I get it now. It's not even like Run the Race is the first movie to try and use that trick to pull an emotional reaction the audience. Far from it. It's actually a fairly common development in sports dramas. However, what has saved these other movies from the same rebuttal is that they at least allowed the moment to carry weight in the story by bolstering the overall theme of perseverance. Here it's just cheap shock value.