Been reading IMDB for many years .... sometime before the new millenium and resisted making an account. But after seeing this movie, it was the straw on the camel's back. I am so tired of seeing this tag line, it broke down my resistance.

When one see's this tagline in a 3 sentence movie description, about all you can take away from "based upon a true story" is that once there was a kid named John and he fell though the ice. Setting the Miracle aside for the moment, events in the movie bear little resemblance to fact with many of the parties involved admitting such. And if ya gonna fake the little things, it doesn't give much credence to the big dramatic moment.

As for the miracle ... did John Smith experience a miracle ? Well if so, how do we describe folks who have been under water for 4 times as long ? Two stories come to mind, one doctor who fell thru the ice while cross country skiing and another a main who was riding a snowmobile. Both survived after being under water for > 60 minutes. Many folks have been pronounced dead ... who weren't:

Walter Williams (78) started kicking on the embalmer's table hours after being pronounced dead after docs found no respiration and no pulse when examined.

Aleksey Stoyev, a police spokesman reported an incident in Russia where a man apparently drank himself to death at a party. After being pronounced dead by medical team, he woke up in the morgue, a bit annoyed I imagine after noticing the toe tag, and actually returned to the party. At least he had a good story to tell.

Janina Kolkiewicz, (91), was declared dead after an examination by a doctor. She spent over 10 hours in cold storage before staff discovered she was alive.

Carlos Camejo was declared dead and an autopsy was requested.. It seems the medical examiners thought something was odd when they noticed Carlos was bleeding kinda like an a live person with a beating heart would. Had to be the ultimate "Duh" moment.

Not just hammering the religious bent here, we see the same with sports figures and others of historical note .... Not limited to movies, I remember reading an assigned book in college containing stories written by early missionaries. Was reading some chapters on the great Christoper Columbus and I had to check the index and bibliography as it seemed I was reading about Genghis Khan. The only thing that lined up about the guy I learned about in grades 1-12 was that his name was Columbus, the queen financed his 3 ships and he (almost) got to the US.