Jesus!Really!A movie by fundamentalists FOR fundamentalists!Written AND directed - god save us from writer/directors! - by a born again C!. Help!!!If you're not a god botherer, walk away now!If you are, well, my sympathies and good luck to you!How the hell(!) this ever got made never mind got released is beyond mortal comprehension - must be an act of god!It involves time travel but that only scrapes it up from a 0!Read the reviews - not the born again rave ratings by people who haven't even had the courtesy to write a review!

So if you are not an American Fundamentalist Christian you will either get very angry at this film or laugh all the way through it.I stumbled across it because I like time travel movies.Most of the acting is standard TV movie fayre, D. David Morin's portrail of the lead character is very well done. He genuinely seems to believe what he is saying.As other have said the kind of rhetoric in this film is one step away from flying planes into buildings.

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.

Time Changer tells the story of a seminary professor from 1890 who is sent over 100 years into the future to visit 21st-century America. There, he is shocked to discover a society in which clothes do more to reveal than conceal, children have lost all respect for authority, and the Lord's name is taken in vain without hesitation. It is a society in which moral absolutes have been eroded because the culture has allowed God and His Word to be taken out of everyday life, and even church life has more in common with a social club than worship and spiritual growth.Time Changer gets high marks for a serious, thoughtful script that at the same time often flirts with a sly humor. An early scene at the seminary where a senior professor laments that the divorce rate has climbed to a whopping 5% is great gallows humor. The cast--which includes several high-profile performers like Hal Linden, Gavin McLeod and the great (and still glorious) Jennifer O'Neill--does a fine job, and the plot unfolds with sincerity and warmth.Obviously, there is some room for debate regarding a few particulars of the script, but I don't see how a sane person could possibly debate the film's overarching theme: that removing God from the public forum has had disastrous results for American morality. No, American in the 1890s may not have been a utopia, but the problems that society had were a world removed from our own. God was a much bigger part of everyday life in society and people were not ashamed to own that America was indeed a Christian nation--and that fact meant something.If you believe that the social revolution of the 1960s and modern Political Correctness are positive things, then you probably won't like Time Changer. But if you recognize the continuing devolution of American society and want a film that explores the questions of how and why this is happening and want to consider how we as Christians should endeavor to live within an increasingly secularized and amoral world, then Time Changer will delight you even as it makes you think.