What a beautiful movie!

Touches You

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This is another movie I just watched on my journey through the best and worst religious cinema.This movie just doesn't make much sense on the message that they were trying to convey.Sure, it makes sense that an extremely religious man from 1890 with only the knowledge of that era and the lack of a proper education would find 2002 pretty messed up.But, this is not a fish out of water comedy, I don't even know what the hell this is, half the movie is just straight up preaching which is not even relevant to the theme of the film.These Christiano brothers need to stop making movies, this was not a movie this was a terribly acted propaganda piece that was a "movie" in name only.I honestly wish I had more to say about this but since it was clearly just cheap attempt to get people to watch a sermon all I can say is f**k this propaganda and f**k everyone involved with it. I will say that the wheelbarrow handles that they tried to pass off as fancy lever handles was pretty funny....... other than that stay away from this garbage.

I sell Time Changer DVDs at various churches each week, and many of my buyers list this as one of their favorite films. Many still come up to me months later to thank me for bringing the film to them. It has a touch of comedy, drama, and a Christ-centered message. I highly recommend it.Those who are into the "steampunk" genre, will love the look and feel of this film. Definitely work getting this DVD for your home library or church library.D. David Morin, Gavin MacLeod, Hal Linden are excellent actors. They really bring this Sci-Fi film to life. Kudos to them and also to Rich Christiano for this fun film.

"Bloodletting is claimed to have been the most common medical practice performed by surgeons from antiquity until the late 19th century, a span of almost 2,000 years. The practice has now been abandoned by modern style medicine. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the historical use of bloodletting was harmful to patients."The concept of God and Devil in this film is explained on the same way, like Bloodletting was explained by doctors (often with force) over a 2000 years period - or like Anti-psychotic-drugs are used today by doctors (often with force) often without any knowledge of the human mind. It is the design of our believe system, who make us able to fill up or combine all kind of concepts, into a particular level in our human mind. We all need to believe in something or someone higher then ourself. We have different names in every language and mean at some point exactly the same.If someone - like in this movie or in a church - is starting a blame game, most people do not buy this boring Egotrip from a priest anymore. Christianity could be the best message in the world, if it wasn't proclaimed by the most miserable ambassadors in the world.This is why the churches are empty and people are searching into all kind of religions, to find true spirituality. Now we are on a point in history, where we experience the biggest threat ever, to get drawn into an all-effacing religious war, where every religion and inside every religion every single sect seems to have the monopoly of God and is prepared to fight for its a self-defined truth with heavy weapons. God is so much more than this. Every human do share the same concept of two legs, two arms, a brain and the same amount of braincells. Even more interesting: we share the same divine spark in every cell of our body. Every tribe on earth does. No scientist can create this spark. It is a part of God within us, not in a building like the church and this concept is so much more valuable, then the hallow words and blame games of our church. And so much more then the blame-game of this movie.This movie seems for me a cheap and awkward attempt to keep up the power, the church did have 100 years ago. And it is played by D. David Morin like a priest will play it in a local congregation meeting. Blaming..... bla... bla... bla.... and acting like he is driving across the country only in first gear, forgetting to shift to second and third... in most of his play. An awkward attempt - with primitive low level pedagogy - to proof something - with a wrong metaphor and trying to gain the lost monopoly and power the church had before.Bloodletting and the empty, anemic churches are outdated concepts. God is so much more! Christianity can be so much more then the same bla.. bla.. bla.. every Sunday...

I know that if you're not Hollywood, that producing a film is expensive, and recruiting talent, hiring coaches, and all the rest that goes into producing a top-notch film requires serious resources.But here is the thing - if you want to win people over to your point of view by using media such as film, it's important to reach - rather than to turn off - your intended audience. And you accomplish this by striving for perfection, and settling for little less.It's likely that with a film based on the premise of time-travel, the producers were hoping to reach a group of people who were at least interested in science fiction. But for time-travel themed science fiction to be effective, the time-traveler must be able to convince the audience that he or she is truly from the time they claim.Unfortunately, all the characters from the past seem incapable of speaking as if they were truly from the later 19th century. The dialog from these people seems to be more of an affected 21st century people attempting to make us believe they are from the 18th century. For me, this was the weakest link in the film. The main characters were anachronistic in any age - they belonged nowhere.I'm not a Christian, but I don't mind spiritual film - so the message of this film does little to inform my critique. This is simply a bad film with poor acting and a thrown-together plot.Also, the dramatic ploy to build urgency at the end - seems a bit childish.