Mystery of the Kingdom of God
Andrew is chosen by God and is called out of his mischievous childhood to partake in the kingdom of God. Andrew must go through trials, tests, and spiritual warfare, before the mystery of the kingdom of God is finally revealed to him.
- Released: 2021-03-26
- Runtime: 91 minutes
- Genre: Animation, Family
- Stars: Adam Smit
- Director: Adam Smit
Comments
- malicedr - 3 August 2023
This is a weird one.
For starters with the most obvious aspects of the film. The animation is passable and inoffensive. We're not falling to the depths of Video Brinquedo, but nowhere near Pixar, a Clash of Clans middle ground. This is clearly done by a studio of at least reasonable competence, though I know not which one. But it's quite apparent that the visuals are the only thing our creative lead Adam Smit didn't do.
Story, directing, voice acting, he did it all largely by himself. Every single one of the characters in the movie is voiced by Adam, and he clearly has no training in acting and lacks range. This amateurishness extends to the story, which deviates from the traditional 3 act structure. In the first act, our main character Andrew gets on the path of faith in God, but the middle and bulk of the movie is a series of little stories about Andrew (and sometimes other characters) having their faith tested with little to no interconnecting tissue. Then with zero warning we fast forward to Andrew dying of old age, the Rapture taking place, and we get to see all the stuff that happens afterwards.
Some credit has to be given to the film's epic scope. Most religious films tend to keep focused on worldly issues of faith, but this one goes balls out. We get biblically accurate angels, sexy Hot Topic Satan, a depiction of heaven that's best described as sci-fi Warcraft, fights that literally consist of people groaning while reaching out at each other, LOTS of speaking in tongues. It's got the air of an edgy JRPG if written by a hardcore Pentecostal christian teenager.
The result is something on par with the work of Neil Breen. There is so much hard work and passion put into this film, and you can feel it. But animation aside, it's obvious that all the work was done by one person who lacked any knowledge on how to do what he was trying to do, lacked a guiding hand, and threw everything at the board.
This isn't a good movie. Not by a mile. In terms of objective overall quality it's sub-par. But god damn if it isn't uncanny. It's worth a watch if you want to see something uniquely baffling.
