The Second Coming of Christ

Unusually, I will not review the film, rather I will review the reviews. The GROSSLY negative reviews are, I strongly suspect, from non faith people, perhaps even atheists or followers of science who are following their own agenda in refusing to give ANY recognition to films, or the idea of faith. On the other hand, the 10/10s are clearly from the other side of the fence and appear to be OVER defensive of faith, and perhaps of faith films. I have seen it, and whilst not the best film ever, you should watch it, perhaps your opinion of BOTH sets of reviewers will be the same as mine afterwards. Now " Paul, The apostle of Christ ".... THAT is a fabulous and VERY dark and surprising film. Don't miss that one.

I never review movies, but have to comment on this one. It's AWFUL!! Bad acting, poor cinematography, weak plot.

For the record, I am a Christian and I appreciate the "bottom line" message the filmmakers are trying to get across, but movies like this are what make so many folks laugh and scoff at Christian films. My biggest gripe... there doesn't have to be a division between science and faith. Just take a look at the website Biologos dot org and see.

This is an awesome movie if you're a religious zealot with no regard for acting ability, story line or rational. I don't believe the writer has ever opened a bible let alone attempt to recreate any portion of it. Watching this movie is analogous to your friend trying to get you to taste something awful just to prove how awful it truly is.

Sometimes in films there are mistakes, people pick up on those mistakes and make fun of them. Every so often there is a parody of the film: "Shawn of the Dead" to "Dawn of the Dead", "Space Balls" to "Star Wars". But this film is so horrible that it would be impossible to actually make a parody of it, because in order to do that you would have to make something which made less sense or had worse acting.

The "Sweeded" version of the film would actually be an improvement to the stupidity that was created here. The makers should be ashamed. All the actors have just seriously damaged their carriers.

The Second Coming Of Christ is pretty much what I have come to expect for most attempts by the religious community to create an evangelistic end times movie.

The cinematography is actually pretty good, the acting for the most part is better than average. Unfortunately, the weak part of this film is in its story; which while interesting, has poor execution of bump points to move it forward, causing progression to occur abruptly. The story also has a poorly executed resolution that occurs abruptly and lacks earlier set-up to explain what is happening and causes a loss of connection with how the story was developing. The ending feels like the screenwriter wrote to long of a story, and then needed to cut out significant parts of the background story that is needed to resolve the ending.

As for its content, as a reviewer of Christian and religious movies, it felt like this movie introduced quite a few strange doctrinal ideas, while also trying to introduce a science theme to explain end time prophecy. For an endtimes themed movie, it strays away from what could be considered the typical and most common endtime storylines.

One aspect of the movie that bothered me, was the decision to have the opening part of the film in either hebrew or aramaic, which completely assumes that the viewer already has a standing knowledge of the crucifixion story. Another part of the film was also filmed in another language, but the film is obviously written for an English speaking and comprehending audience. This added nothing of value to the film and if anything made an already structurally challenged story, more challenged.

Bottom line, its just a very odd and unusual story even for a Christian film. I didn't mind watching it, I found it interesting enough to watch it all the way through to the end, but the ending in particular is so abrupt, with poor build up and advance setup, that it left me feeling unresolved. A well written movie, even if its a bad movie, should always leave the viewer feeling both resolved and understanding what occurred.

All that being said, I am impressed that this was filmed as a short film and won first place at the Action on Film Film Festival where my short films have also appeared. I gave it an extra star, just because I saw that it premiered at AOF.