Many of the other reviews summarize this moderately good movie well.
If you like sci fi, or if you are interested in some Christians' take on what the end times will be like...this movie will entertain you.
As a lover of both sci fi and the Bible...I got a fair amount out of this movie.
This movie site claims that both Margot Kidder and Howie Mandel were UNAWARE at first that this was a Christian movie. Guess their agents did not check out the Canadian company that made this and other specifically Christian influenced films.
However, Kidder is GREAT as the witty yet loving older Sister...to Busey, etc. Whatever her personal religious or non-religious belief are, she ACTED...as a Christian whose faith is well integrated into her life.
NOTE - the recent US TV series "V" has a few overall rough similarities as do other sci-fi movies. An alien or otherwise formerly unseen governmental force takes over the whole world...People are forcibly enslaved to this government (Think of Invasion of the Body Snatchers maybe) but some people RESIST this evil...and are part of the Underground...It would be interesting if some student of both science fiction and theology would write up on how the Bible may have influenced science fiction...(and maybe how our view of Revelation might be colored by science fiction).
But not all scientific possibilities are fiction. Beware the world leader who just seems too good to be true...
If you like sci fi, or if you are interested in some Christians' take on what the end times will be like...this movie will entertain you.
As a lover of both sci fi and the Bible...I got a fair amount out of this movie.
This movie site claims that both Margot Kidder and Howie Mandel were UNAWARE at first that this was a Christian movie. Guess their agents did not check out the Canadian company that made this and other specifically Christian influenced films.
However, Kidder is GREAT as the witty yet loving older Sister...to Busey, etc. Whatever her personal religious or non-religious belief are, she ACTED...as a Christian whose faith is well integrated into her life.
NOTE - the recent US TV series "V" has a few overall rough similarities as do other sci-fi movies. An alien or otherwise formerly unseen governmental force takes over the whole world...People are forcibly enslaved to this government (Think of Invasion of the Body Snatchers maybe) but some people RESIST this evil...and are part of the Underground...It would be interesting if some student of both science fiction and theology would write up on how the Bible may have influenced science fiction...(and maybe how our view of Revelation might be colored by science fiction).
But not all scientific possibilities are fiction. Beware the world leader who just seems too good to be true...