Usually I'm fairly generous rating Christian movies, as money for those kind of projects is often hard to come by, so you can't really expect a cinematic masterpiece. Usually though, the story, or at least the message, makes up for very poor production values. But in the era of Sony full frame cameras, it seems this crew did a reasonable job on production values for the budget and even the acting was pretty good (the lead female did a particularly good job and there was at times good chemistry between the two leads).
Where this fell down was the story. The lead characters were basically joining a kind of death cult, under the guise of some strange psuedo-Christian moral idea that living forever is somehow a bad thing (eternal life??). At the end I was questioning if it was a Christian production or an anti atheist rencarnation of the Jones cult.
I found myself agreeing more with the actions of the "athiest".
Also, everything about the first conversations with the cult leader made me queezy. He used every manipulative salesman technique in the book. It was actually disturbing seeing kids manipulated into a self destructive cult.
Even the misrepresentation of the athiests position was quite jarring.
It also didn't help that the title actually told you the entire story, so there was no mystery other than the mystery of "is this a Christian movie, or did I miss something?"
Again though, if the film makers get a better idea for a movie, I have no doubt they have a good future in the industry. This movie just wasn't great.
That said, they at least made a more enjoyable movie than the Eternals!
Where this fell down was the story. The lead characters were basically joining a kind of death cult, under the guise of some strange psuedo-Christian moral idea that living forever is somehow a bad thing (eternal life??). At the end I was questioning if it was a Christian production or an anti atheist rencarnation of the Jones cult.
I found myself agreeing more with the actions of the "athiest".
Also, everything about the first conversations with the cult leader made me queezy. He used every manipulative salesman technique in the book. It was actually disturbing seeing kids manipulated into a self destructive cult.
Even the misrepresentation of the athiests position was quite jarring.
It also didn't help that the title actually told you the entire story, so there was no mystery other than the mystery of "is this a Christian movie, or did I miss something?"
Again though, if the film makers get a better idea for a movie, I have no doubt they have a good future in the industry. This movie just wasn't great.
That said, they at least made a more enjoyable movie than the Eternals!