Greenes
Please don't spend money on this.
Lucia Ayala
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Janis
One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
quantum
There were points in this movie where the scripting was so incredibly propagandistic that I thought they were actually trying to be sarcastic. This movie is the biggest load of crap I've ever seen. I'm an atheist but I don't have a problem with Christianity-themed movies if the story is there but this movie had absolutely no substance. It was literally just a crazed fanatic quoting scripture and flouting ideas like 'Jesus came to earth 1900 years ago'. I can't believe I actually wasted my time on this nonsense.
blacktopase
I am agnostic, and I was gathering sci-fi movies and grabbed this title without thinking. Only after watching this for a while I started suspecting this was Christian propaganda.I truly enjoyed this movie, it has a good plot line and it is very well acted, for a CP that is. I believe the character and coming from him the propaganda is believable, did not bother me at all. Although would not watch a second CP movie after this, too much is too much XD
retromanrussell
As a Christian fundamentalist film it conveys the message that straying from God and the Bible leads to moral decay. As a Time Travel film it shows the difference between two eras. It almost seems like a religious version of Back To The Future 2, only this film is nowhere near as good.The dystopian reality of the modern era is probably even worse in reality than as portrayed in this film. To make it a family film for a Christian audience the swearing, violence and sexual deviance cannot be shown. So, it lessens the impact of what the Pastor encounters (life is worse than that).I'm not religious, though I largely agree with the film's view of the state of the modern world. I would have liked the Time Traveller to attempt to change the future, in a sort of reverse Back To Future. So, instead of having a professor telling Marty McFly to actively prevent tampering with the timeline of history, we could have had the pastor returning to 1890, telling of his findings and being sent back into the future by his fellow clergymen to see where the "rot set in" and watching his attempt to change it. An opportunity missed.
Spineshivers
This movie "lied" to me. I'm a big sci-fi buff and I was severely disappointed by this film. The tags say sci fi and drama. But it's really a religious, fundamentalist Christian movie. It flat out lies to people. The whole message is that everything was nice and cozy in the 1890s and now they're crap. Never mind that people aren't dying from diseases, have fast transport, roads, planes, the internet and all this wonderful technology. No, what matters is that some primitive minded people, just like today's fundamentalists, don't agree. The movie basically tells us that you can;t be moral without believing in God. It's abhorrent. I'd rather let my eight year old son see porn than this piece of trash. And even if you somehow find the stomach to ignore the idea behind it, the movie is still bad. Awful acting, script, laughable dialogue. Just don;t see it. It will waste your time. This movie is worth it just in case you're a fundamentalist Christian.
