This is a Christian movie that could be considered to be sci-fi, based on the fact that time travel plays a big role in it and time travel is not (yet) possible. Based on these two features and not being religious myself I'd call it a fantasy.
It's an okay movie with some decent acting and reasonable camera work and editing. I'm guessing that it won all those awards it brags about in the Christian movie scene and not in some of the more renowned competitions like the Oscars as it's not that good.
The story is not that original, the terminator was send back to kill Connor so the resistance would never happen and this is basically the same idea only projected on to Jesus and Christianity. And, as with most time travel flics, it makes me think of the so called grandfather paradox. Simplified this paradox states that if I go back in time and kill my mother before I was conceived then how can I exist and kill my mother in the first place? And then who killed my mother?
The same applies here. If going back in time and killing Jesus would prevent Christianity from existing then Christianity would never have existed and they wouldn't have had a reason to go back in time to kill Jesus in the first place. Or if the terminator would have been able to kill Connor and this would have prevented the resistance from becoming a threat then there never would have been a reason to send Arni back in the first place.
Review of Assassin 33 A.D.
