Honestly, I was worried Breakthrough was going to be a lot worse than it was. The acting and adaptation of the true story is competent, though the script is so narrow and repetitive that it often feels like it only has one thing to say. Metz is pretty good in the lead, and the true story of what happened is legitimately miraculous. The entire second act and most of the third was just Metz insisting her son will be fine and people need to be positive, while doctors give the facts of the situation. I don't know enough about the story to know how they deviated, but the 45 minutes of CPR followed by giving up, mom comes in to pray, and then he wakes up was just one of many times the film intentionally places God over reason and science. Another was the brain and organ damage - they didn't even try to explain how the certainty of catastrophic brain damage of the best case scenario was avoided. The lone takeaway of the movie is that if you keep believing and fighting, that God will do the rest, which I think is both an uncreative and misguided moral. It would be nice if more nuanced and thoughtful messages were included, but even if they weren't, this one is dangerous, as it encourages people to hope intervention will solve their problems rather than taking responsibility and planning corrective action. It is still a positive and hopeful film about a wonderful true story, and it's more watchable than I anticipated, but layered or innovative it is not.