I agree. The image doesn't look quite finished. Nice ingredients but perhaps a bit lack-lustre. My first reaction was, not quite up to Michael's usual standards.
On the other hand, the sight of a church, anywhere, in any circumstances, will have an emotional impact on some people. In this scene, you have a church, a community, set against a barren and desolate background, which makes it more poignant, or special, or interesting, whatever the word is.