It's been a while since a movie insulted me so much by robbing me of my time without entertaining in the slightest. It begins with a literal record-scratching "this is me" moment. It proceeds by literally telling us everything it couldn't show us about the characters, because the director and writer is unable to build any depth out of anything - characters are presented by the MC in one or two badly written phrases, building off common stereotypes. It builds on a convoluted story wide as a lake and deep as a pond, constantly breaks suspension of disbelief, is extremely insensitive of non western cultures to the point of trying to sell its absolute bad taste as "ooooh controversial movie", uses ridiculous premises that are unintentional comedy (such as the guy that goes back in time and kills Jesus because his family died in a car accident), has absolutely no idea about the science it tries to build a story on, the list goes on. It's also a Christian movie, and it doesn't tell you that - which explains a little of how weird it feels, but just a little. It's pure limp cheap energy from some forgotten awfulness from the dark age of cinema. The cherry on the cake is it throwing away any chance at quality and depth by trying to have messages and morals - Christians, man -, as if I were an ancient Greek peasant trying to understand basic ethics from bedtime stories. I'm not, and this is insulting.
The aggressive marketing campaign is pathetic. The many blog posts written on request or by the creators themselves are pathetic.
The movie opens up, ironically, with a list of awards it received, which is why I watched it in the first place. There are many hidden gems out there. Or so I thought - if this piece of absolute waste of spacetime rounded up so many awards, either we have a LOT of prizes to go around, or we are absolutely out of good movies.
It is, however, consistent - if you want to have a literal bullet list if everything that makes a movie bad, this is it.
The aggressive marketing campaign is pathetic. The many blog posts written on request or by the creators themselves are pathetic.
The movie opens up, ironically, with a list of awards it received, which is why I watched it in the first place. There are many hidden gems out there. Or so I thought - if this piece of absolute waste of spacetime rounded up so many awards, either we have a LOT of prizes to go around, or we are absolutely out of good movies.
It is, however, consistent - if you want to have a literal bullet list if everything that makes a movie bad, this is it.