Time Changer (2003)

Such a frustrating disappointment

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

This movie is hilarious from the cheesy dialogue to the crappy props and the hardcore 'no morals without jesus' message, but it's hard to believe the director wasn't trolling the public when he made it.

First of all I have to say this was VERY well made--acting, script, cinematography, directing, editing, the whole shebang.I found the main topic of the film to be one worthy of considering and also very timely (sorry for the pun!). I feel the movie made its point somewhat, but that much more could and hopefully will be done on this topic of morals versus morals in Jesus's name.The lead actor, who played Carlisle, did a wonderful job! He honestly had me laughing out loud in too many places to count (and I'm not one to laugh out loud to most movies, though I love to laugh)! It was a bit disappointing (though not surprising) that this screenplay was written by those who believe in a hell of eternal conscious torment as well as the immortality of all human souls whether they are saved or not, but this did not ruin the movie for me. It did however knock a star off my still-very-high rating.Funny, serious, important, stimulating and surprisingly good watch. Bravo!

I sell Time Changer DVDs at various churches each week, and many of my buyers list this as one of their favorite films. Many still come up to me months later to thank me for bringing the film to them. It has a touch of comedy, drama, and a Christ-centered message. I highly recommend it.Those who are into the "steampunk" genre, will love the look and feel of this film. Definitely work getting this DVD for your home library or church library.D. David Morin, Gavin MacLeod, Hal Linden are excellent actors. They really bring this Sci-Fi film to life. Kudos to them and also to Rich Christiano for this fun film.

Even though the concept of time travel was proposed most prominently by that most noted of secularists H.G. Wells the Christian film industry gets in on the act with Time Changer. If you think about it just the concept of time travel is totally alien to their world view. If in fact the broad march of our history is fixed than people monkeying around with time travel are in a great position to gum up the works for our fixed future which ends with Jesus's return.It's 1890 and a group of the faculty at a bible college are discussing a new book by David Morin about his theological world view which emphasizes good works rather than salvation. Colleague Gavin McLeod disagrees and he's been working on a time machine and has been to the future. He sends a reluctant Morin there to see what the lack of a firm fundamentalist faith in society has wrought.This man from the Gay Nineties is shocked at the world one hundred years hence. The rest of us just don't take these people seriously any more. Sin in their view is rampant. My God if he had gone up to today he'd be seeing 19 states legalizing gay marriage.Society back in 1890 was sure paradise. Women could not even vote, black people were segregated and in economic bondage. Laborers couldn't get a decent wage as unions were ruthlessly suppressed We were about to go to on a short imperial binge and come up with Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Phillipines. Certainly nothing like what the European powers were doing, still it was aggressive. Censorship was the order of the day and gays were just beginning to emerge from the unalterably religiously damned to folks who were psychologically unfit and with intensive therapy was needed to cure them. But you could have paradise if you just got with the fundamentalist program and thought just like they did and the world was then your oyster.I will say this though. If Christians perfected time travel and did it back in the Gay Nineties what would stop them from traveling up to the Rapture and just heading right into heaven assuming you make the cut. That's what McLeod does as soon as Morin gets back and he fixes a date of 2080 for the second coming and he moves his destination date to 2070 to get in on the Rapture. As I said before what if they all did, that would sure screw up the future.And remember no man knows the date and hour of the second coming, but apparently Gavin McLeod finds out.This film is so wrong on a scientific and philosophical level.