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First off, I would like to congratulate the filmmakers on creating this movie. Clearly, a huge amount of hard work went into producing and bringing it to the theaters. A great deal of thought went into the movie's message and, especially, into the computer graphics that appear all throughout the film. The Gospel presentation at the end of the movie was the best I have ever seen in a Christian film. Well done!
All that aside, I do have a few technical issues with the movie. The first and most important is the fact that the film's narrator mistakenly calls the Voyager 2 space probe a satellite. I was shocked when I heard this. I have no idea how such a blatant error could have made its way into the film without being noticed by someone. In all fairness, the Voyager was correctly labelled on-screen as a space probe, so the problem lies in the narrator's script. Still, anyone who knows anything about the space program should have been able to spot this goof. It gave me quite the jolt, and made it a little difficult to enjoy the rest of the film.
The second issue I have is with the movie's pacing. Really, I think they should have made the film 2 and half hours long instead of 2 hours. It very quickly cuts from one thing to another without giving the viewer much time to absorb all the information. For me, most of the topics presented were things I had already heard before, but even I had trouble following the movie at times. I can only imagine the confusion of someone who had never heard any of this info before. Increasing the length of the movie would have made it a little less crowded.
Problem number three has to do with the computer graphics themselves. As I stated before, clearly a huge amount of thought and effort went into producing them. However, there are a few things that should have been addressed. The first is the frame rate, which was rather choppy during certain scenes. I notice that other reviewers also saw this, so the problem wasn't with the theater's projector, but with the actual movie itself. For such an obvious glitch, I'm utterly perplexed as to why it was not corrected in postproduction.
Issue number four concerns the film as a whole. I don't understand at all why you would make a movie about the creation and the Garden of Eden, and yet make the colors so drab. If they had shot the film in black and white it would have looked largely the same. At times, things were so dark that it was difficult to tell what was being shown. My advice to anyone who buys the movie on DVD or Blu Ray is to increase the color saturation of your TV or computer monitor by a significant amount when watching it. This should be sufficient to breathe some color into an otherwise dark and drab movie.
The final little problem I had with the film is located in an additional scene that was shown after the credits (this scene may or may not be in the DVD release). In that scene, one of the creators of the movie was talking about the Ice Age that followed the flood. He erroneously stated that the flood left all the ice at the polar caps. What he really should have said is that, after the flood, a great deal of snow fell in the polar regions and built up into the present day polar caps. I knew what he was trying to say, but anyone who is not familiar with creation research could very easily take his statement as a very pseudo-scientific claim.
Except for these problems, the film was a pretty good one. It certainly wasn't the greatest film ever made about the book of Genesis (the movie "Is Genesis History?" was a much better film in my opinion), but I generally liked it. That last scene in the movie really made an impression on me. I look forward to the sequel.
score 8/10
agriffiths-83279 3 January 2018
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