The location — Sarah Palin’s beautiful old stomping ground of Wasilla, Alaska — is the main attraction in Robert Saitzyk’s talky and overwrought melodrama.
Charlie Shepard plays a faith healer who becomes a recluse after his wife and young son are brutally murdered. Six years later, he encounters a mysterious girl (Courtney Halverson) who may hold the key to the unsolved murders.
Title notwithstanding, “Godspeed” is quite a slog, with most of the acting strictly amateurish save the veteran Ed Lauter as a fish and game inspector.