Brendan King (Crawford Wilson) is eighteen and trying to change his life. He’s just gotten out of juvie and is living with his eighteenth set of foster parents, Mike and Vanessa Stubbs (James McDaniel and Lynn Whitfield). Brendan wants to leave his former gang life behind but it’s hard. Vanessa doesn’t trust Brendan and neither does Mike’s best friend, Detective Dwyer (Christopher John Martin).
Brendan wants to help out his old neighborhood by buying the building where his best friend died and turning it into a rec center. But after Brendan makes the news for saving the life of Natalie (Kayla Compton) after she crashes his car, the members of his former gang track Mike down. They know that Mike knows the location of a hidden stash of drugs and they start trying to draw Mike back into his old life.
King’s Faith was made with the best intentions and it had a good message about forgiveness and second chances so I wanted to like it but Crawford Wilson, while easy on the eyes, was never believable as a former drug dealer and addict. There was nothing tough about him and he seemed out of place whenever he was interacting with the members of his former gang. Since I couldn’t believe that he was ever in a gang, there wasn’t any suspense about whether or not he would return to them. Kayla Compton was more convincing as the troubled Natalie and her story was actually more interesting than Brendan’s. The movie probably would have been better if it had been about her.
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