Very well executed

Touches You

Such a frustrating disappointment

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Could have been really interesting subject matter until Jesus saved the day.

I watch these missionary films from time to time. There is an earnestness in most of them that makes up for the fact that they are so horrible. In my city is Pat Robertson's film school, training hundreds of people a year to make these things. I often wonder what will happen when they actually are able to make good movies?I am beginning to believe that this may never happen. Film may be making Christianity obsolete. I know this may sound strange. Cinema seems profoundly malleable, a vehicle for any story. And Christianity has survived by adapting far, far from what Jesus believed, making any necessary compromise.But film has rather rigid dynamics when combined with the forces of how we define ourselves through stories. It is extremely flexible, but only within a conceptual marketplace where the collective projections of self reinforce each other. Cinema allows us to define our own cosmos. It worries me that the rivers are sometimes so banal, but such the way of the collective — and young imaginations have surprising sophistication.Christianity on the other hand is about accepting a prefabricated story. Well, different ones depending on the preacher's agenda, but the cosmos is defined in a very top down manner. Theoretically, they could overlap a lot, but that is not what the world seems to want. Even the most obvious Jesus stories like Harry Potter don't follow the rules of the Christian institution. This film has prompted me to believe that it may be impossible to make powerful cinema with the existing dogma. Everything about it fails.The irony is that the story flows are about rigid superstition being made obsolete, not by the Bible in the story, but because people simply want to explain for themselves what the world is. Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

I was expecting an awkward preachy "Christian" movie, but the acting was excellent and the story twisted me around and I practically cried straight through the last half hour of this movie. Every single character was well motivated, and the plot and character development played out at a good pace. Characters that you hate you later come to sympathize with. No one is all good or all bad; they felt real. Their actions made perfect sense, in retrospect, given their experiences and their isolation. Their accents took a little while to become accustomed to, though. We found that we had to use the subtitles to follow everything that was going on. Once we got used to them, though, we were drawn into the story. The flashbacks at the end of the movie were particularly wrenching. You'll be emotionally drained and elated by the time you finish this movie. It's a must-see.

This is one of the worst films I have seen, good to see Landon Jr keeping the family name going. The accents are terrible, its obvious that no one had actually heard a Welsh voice before the making of the film, the actors must have went to the Dick Van Dyke acting school. The acting is wooden and the editing is so bad it make an already bad film worse.The amount of times that the line "My dear child" rears its ugly head is unbelievable. Did this film ever make it on to the cinemas or was put straight onto Fox day time coma channel. I don't see the point on wasting time and money on a film that should never have been made. If your bible belt US and don't appreciate quality films then this is for you.