Plot Summary
Brad is a bad boy with a sick mother, but when his grandfather dies, the will stipulates that Brad must live in his grandfather’s house for a year before collecting his hefty inheritance. He decides to move to Texas with his goofy friend in order to fix up the house to sell it. While there, Brad meets Maria, one of his grandfather’s neighbors, whom he begins to grow close to. Maria and her parents decide to try to indoctrinate Brad with their cultish philosophies, which are based entirely on a cockamamie explanation of the Seventy Weeks vision from the book of Daniel. Thus, Brad is then empowered to discover that his grandfather was secretly hiding giant skeletons in his basement that can prove the Bible is right because God is a Time Collector or something.
Production Quality (0 points)
Besides the other absurdities of this film, the poor production makes its existence mostly pointless. Video quality is very inconsistent, and the camera is constantly moving around and sometimes has weird close-up shots and bizarre camera angles. The lighting is also all over the place, and audio quality is very poor. Flashbacks are unnecessarily black and white, and the production overall has a very cheap look to it. Sets, locations, and props are limited and underwhelming. Editing is also very choppy, including a lot abrupt and unnecessarily bad cuts and transitions. Basically, this production has nothing good about it.
Plot and Storyline Quality (-1 points)
Not only is this storyline severely disorganized and confusing, but it espouses an off-the-wall, almost cult-like message that comes completely out of left field. Though Time Collectors pushes a predictable anti-atheist agenda, it also delves into a bizarre prophecy\time travel concept that is both unanticipated and off-putting, if not also funny for all the wrong reasons. Nonetheless, the weirdness aside, this is just an all-around bad plot. There’s barely any substantial dialogue, thus leaving the characters empty. The film is full of wasted time and pointless content, such as activities of daily living and people hanging around and talking without saying anything worthwhile. A lot of the time, it seems like this plot was written by children, except for the bizarre worldview inclusions. In the end, this storyline is odd enough to warrant a negative point.
Acting Quality (0 points)
As if other parts of this film were not bad enough, this is possibly the most amateurish and juvenile acting can get without being negative. Every cast member is very awkward and unsure in their line delivery, besides being generally dry, drab, and underwhelming. In short, this film is a perfect example a bunch of random people getting together to force a ridiculous film to happen.
Conclusion
When you want to convert someone to Christianity, naturally the first thing you would do is sit them down in your living room and proceed to indoctrinate them on your weird view of Daniel’s Seventy Weeks prophecy, which you know way better than anyone else. Apparently, that’s what the makers of this film thought. Either that, or they just didn’t think at all, which is highly possible. A word of advice: avoid this film unless you want a good laugh or want to learn how to make a film impossibly bad.
Final Rating: -1 out of 10 points
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