The Mysterious Note

While this looks to be made by an ameture, there is a fun and warmth to the movie. First, the screenplay could have been better. It has a slow start and can be a bit preachy at times. I see this in other Christian movies, they assume you don't get it so they spell it out for you. But honestly, we do get it. It could have moved at a better pace, but overall not too bad. Second, the director/editing. Several scenes needed to be reshot, but for some reason "good enough" seemed to rule the day on this film. (budget, time,????) Acting was all over the place. Some scenes looked like some high school kids got together to make a movie and other scenes were touching. But some of the characters were simply not believable. Crazy as it may seem, the lead role (was he the director/writer/executive producer's son?) actually was not bad. He seemed to be a natural. Overall this was a fun film with a nice message as long as you don't expect too much.

I had to force myself to keep awake while watching this. Acting was generally abysmal and the dialogue was clichéd and off-putting. The youngsters were stiff and amateurish as if they were in a school pantomime.

The story has a lot of heart and poor acting. The message of the story was lovely the adults in this film was appalling. The lead kid(Leo) wasn't to awful at acting yet this didn't save the film.

My 11 year absolutely LOVES this film!!! He watched it repeatedly and could not stop talking about how nice it was to not feel scared, to not anticipate a villain, and to truly enjoy what he was watching but not only that, he could learn and grow from it. He felt like he was part of the adventure yet did NOT have to watch the typical negative behavior of friends having conflict, lying, stealing etc yet instead it was much more realistic to real life. It was so nice to not have to mute language, as there wasn't any! There were NO scenes of sexual relationships exposing him to. No witchcraft of ANY kind, and no villains!

We truly enjoyed this wholesome, wonderfully clean kids movie that is SO hard, if not impossible, to find anywhere, now more than ever.

My 11 year old is already asking if there will be another movie after this....

Thank you so much for the time, expense and dedication this must have taken to make and to keep in mind to preserve the minds & hearts of innocent children to enjoy and not to be exposed to what most movies these days offer children...... for we are what we behold.

This would be excellent for vacation Bible school for any and all churches of all denominations!

Highly recommend to Christian families, homeschoolers, etc who are rarely if ever, able to find anything truly clean for their children and family as a whole to view and enjoy.

This would be excellent to offer in the movies section for children's hospitals where most hospitals offer TV, movies or games for kids who are hospitalized and yet almost all movies available have villains, violence, or witchcraft in them and inappropriate even when "G" or "PG" rated .... so we are often unable to watch unless there is a nature documentary (which then manages to throw in evolution so that's not always ideal either).

This would be so much better all around, public, hospitals, waiting rooms for children, churches, after school programs, homeschoolers, Christian families etc. Anyone who is searching to raise their children in innocence as long as possible in this world. There is enough corruption and evil in this world without viewing it as entertainment - this is a breath of fresh air!

If you don't like it, don't watch it. Kind of a nice, harmless movie. Some clever scenes with the kids. And yes, the actors may be mostly amateur . At least it was clean, decent, with good messages. 1:27 of your time could be spent on stupid stuff.