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A, I'm guessing, tough monologue from our man about going through the extra trouble to get diesel instead of regular gas to pour over someone because "it burns slower". Which for some reason is supposed to be scarier than a quick burning fuel. Him not realizing that diesel fluid won't ignite with a simple lighter or a burning cigar and regular gas would have been a much better choice if you're going to set someone on fire because it evaporates much easier. It is not the liquid fuel that ignites but the vapours being released as the fuel evaporates. So basically the victim could have just spat out the cigar into the bathtub full of diesel and the cigar would have gone out as if it had been dropped in water. Now, it could have been that our man is new to the burning people business and doesn't know these simple facts, for which he could be forgiven. But somehow the diesel doesn't only ignite, it also causes a major explosion, a remarkable feat considering how slowly diesel evaporates at room temperature and how long its vapours will sub-sequentially take to reach the LEL (Lower Explosion Level) concentration, especially in a bathroom with some big bloody holes in the walls that cause extra ventilation. This is when I knew it wasn't due to any lack of experience from our man but simply a bad movie and I'd be better of doing something else than watching this movie. My suggestion is that you do the same unless you have 2,5 hours to waste.

A tasty cocktail of sci-fi, romance and comedy mixed for you by Jeremy LaLonde and seemingly effortlessly delivered to you by Jonas Chernick, Daniel Stern and Cleopatra (what a name) Coleman. And of course Tommie-Amber Pirie who, just like Jonas, starred in LaLonde's How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town. The movie is a little gem about love, life and time travel (and Schrödinger's cat). It is well edited and Jonas, Daniel and Cleopatra treat us to an excellent performance balancing perfectly on that thin line between a love story and a comedy. But what most impressed me is that this movie deals with the Grandfather Paradoxand comes up with some nice solutions for it. This paradox basically states that if you go back to a point in time before your grandfather met your grandmother and then kill him your mother will never be born an thus you will never exist. And if you never exist then who killed your grandfather? Most movies involving time travel completely ignore this paradox, like in the Terminator where Arnie gets send back to kill Connor, the future leader of the resistance. However, if Arnie was to succeed to kill Connor he would never be the future leader of the resistance so there would never have been a reason for Arnie to be send back to kill him in the first place. This movie not only deals with this paradox, it actually presents it to us (the entire universe could cease to exist) and comes up with the solution of James-from-the-future having to disappear if his actions lead to his life being better and him not having any reason to come back in the first place. So 7/10 for the movie itself and an extra 1/10 for taking care of the Grandfather Paradox.

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.

That hurt. Bruce, what has gotten into you? The need for some quick cash I suppose. There's some serious bad acting going on in this movie and Bruce does his fair share too. The story is so full of holes you'll have to work hard trying to figure out why (and how) things are happening the way they are. The "special" effects will leave you wondering too. I am particularly baffled by the scene at the end when Bruce shoots the bad guy and he falls over the railing of the bridge. You see him falling over it and when he disappears out of sight there is a cloud of dust, as if to show the body hitting the ground. But in the next shot, the guy is lying dead on some stone pavement that split his head open. So where did that cloud of dust come from? Now, I could continue pointing out all other fails but I just wasted a lot of precious time giving this movie a chance and I do have other things to do. I felt I had to write this review to protect you from this disappointment. So my advice is for you not to waste your precious time and go do something else than watch this movie. 1 out of 10 (and that's me being kind)