In God's Time (2017) Reviews

• Not Very Well Done

  donmisc2018-06-03

  I'm a Christian and enjoy Christian films. That said, this isn't particularly "Christian" (in a theological sense) and isn't a great "film." Way too many long sequences with dramatic music--for no real reason-overtake the film. Neither the Bible nor the Gospel are set as the primary catalyst for character change. The acting is okay, but not good or great. Cinematography leaves much to be desired with odd angles and lengthy focuses on characters. I don't want to be harsh, but at the time of my watching the movie, it had an IMDB rating of 7.2. That made me think it'd been decent-to-good. It was neither. I know Christian cinema has gotten better and still has a way to go, but there better films where you can get past mediocre acting and low-budget within the Christian genre (ie., Fireproof, Courageous, War Room)

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• Look away

  reillerdvm2018-03-27

  If there is a little over an hour and a half of your life that you don't mind wasting, and never being able to get back, then go ahead and watch this movie. The acting is awful. There are no inspired moments. Bluntly, this may be the dumbest movie that I have ever watched, and I regret that I stuck with it until the end.

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• An unusual concept for a Christian genre film.

  Randy_Dreammaker2018-09-09

  From a filmmakers perspective, this film reminds me of the quality of some of the better student film festival films I've watched. At times it feels a little slow and fails to create a fully believable experience that pulls me into its reality. The story connects pretty well in general, the quality of shots and audio are well done, but overall the plotline and flow has some challenges that prevent it from moving into a higher level of film quality. From the perspective of a Christian or religious film reviewer, the plot and story have issues since the whole premise of the film is around an unknown gentleman who at some point is implied may be an angel, repairs or creates a magic wrist watch and interconnects with a group of related and unrelated individuals who pass the watch along. This could be an implied subtle message about the Christian concept of sharing the Gospel to others and their life being ultimately transformed as a result, but if that is the intent, it gets lost early on. The wrist watch acts as the stories transition catalyst to move the story forward, as it creates a religious experience that changes its wearers doomed outlook about life into one of hope and possibility. Unfortunately, the need for the wrist watch is also the weakness of the film at least in terms of Christian or religious themed movies. The person coming in contact with the watch falls to the ground in what some would refer to as a "Slain in the spirit", "Quaker", or "Pentecostal" experience of shaking before being caught up into a vision, flashback like experience. During this experience several see a man dressed in a white robe with long hair that suggests the commonly portrayed version of the european Jesus with his arms wide open, before awakening. The vision's as revealed to the audience fail to reveal any additional information or details and instead are personified to the Character. As a result, we learn nothing useful to help with connecting what we already know about the person prior to the experience, during the experience or following the experience. It would have been very useful to have made better use of the vision experience to help us understand what the flashback images mean to the character and how they relate to the pre-experience back story. A couple of encouraging bible verse quotes are shown or narrated at the beginning and close of the film, but they offer the audience no connection between the "Christian experience" of salvation or transformation and the involvement of the wrist watch. At times, because of the heavy emphasis on the transformative powers of the watch, It often felt the watch is more of a magic object rather than a religious or "Christian" object. It is difficult to escape the implication that the power is not based on the characters suddenly revelation of the love of God, which is a concept discussed via dialogue, but instead the power is based on the abilities of this magic watch. For a Christian or religious genre movie, it didn't hit it's mark despite its creative attempt. This flaw occurs at the root of the story, since it ultimately would fit better into a new-age genre, with the exception of the opening and closing bible verses.

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• Stock plot but interestingly done.

  rickpraino2018-12-31

  The plot was the redeeming part of the movie. Caution: If you don't catch Charlie the watchmaker's mumbling in the beginning you will miss the only clues to the unfolding of the plot. The important dialogs in the movie are of poor audio quality and I agree with another reviewer's comment on the distracting over music. Be prepared to turn up the volume. The acting was quite good for a so called Christian movie. Question: Dr. Phillips, Rory's uncle, never told her who her father was?

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• It was good

  jlv242018-11-06

  All thou the movie was slow and no plot , I think This had a message that was the more import part the acting good too for I give it 10 stars