Sometimes reviews are helpful, of course, but any review that tells me to NOT watch something betrays the agenda of the reviewer. I might give an atheist movie like Religulous a 1 (or not), I wouldn't tell you not to watch it.
The story line of A Path in Time was pretty easy to follow actually, if you watch any sci fi at all. The special effects and music were just fine for this kind of movie as well. The script needed a "doctor" and I'm guessing the author didn't want to spend the time or might have felt offended by the feedback. Had the script been upshifted in pacing a notch and revised to use more common phrasing, and had some of the actors either been selected differently or pushed to greater potential, the whole presentation would have carried the sense of urgency and excitement that the story deserved.
I thought Jason Mitchell, Claire Thomas, and the fellow who played the father were especially convincing and likeable.
Whatever the "coulda been betters" we might identify, I nevertheless found the story captivating and I watched it all in one sitting, wanting to know what is going to happen next.
I used to feel uncomfortable watching "Christian" movies, somehow resisting the references to God, Christ, the Bible. As an agnostic and later a new Christian, I sometimes felt like the thoughts and feelings the Christian characters exhibited were not something that was either real or would resonate with me.
Now a Christian over 36 years, I can report: the thoughts, feelings, and conversations of many "Christian" characters in such movies reflect what really happens in our minds and lives. We actually take scriptural words seriously and discuss them. So I actually identify with the characters and what they are feeling and saying. I understand the "doubters" in such stories as well.
It's funny how some reviewers think they are attacking a movie, with eyes rolling and condescension, by calling it "Christian." Somehow they think it is trite or childish or proselytizing when a Bible is used or read by a character, for example. Then I think of a movie like Hobo with a Shotgun, or any of the grisly Saw movies, etc., and I wonder if these same "enlightened" reviewers realize that portraying torture, destruction and death is itself actually proselytizing for the worst possible human behavior.
I'd watch A Path in Time or darn near any faith-based or Christian movie 100 times before I'd watch any movie like Saw for more than 15 minutes into its horror show. You choose what you put in your mind and call entertainment.
