Well, we sat through it to the end. A friend asked to see this, so it was staged along with a nice supper... which meant that we could not just run away - but in fact, less than twenty minutes in, I was ready to pull the plug on the television.
Where to start with this one ? It's 'feel' was early 1970's, which in itself is a terrible handicap to recover from. Unhappily, the acting is grade school level, and the sets are Hallmark greeting card-themed. The moralistic narrative is extremely simple, unmistakably so - characters have wooden facial expressions, similar to watching a 1970's soap opera. You could have made this film for a lot less than 10 million, as there simply is not enough of any kind of quality here to require that level of investment. As the final credits rolled, I was given the clue I needed - this film is base don a series of books written by a moralistically simple minded 'channeler' - to promote the books. It's an hour and forty minutes of promo for books I would never ever read. Looking back this morning, it's almost distasteful to see a film put out at this level of awkward banality. A stinker.
Review of Astral City: A Spiritual Journey
