Critic Reviews

It is inspirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures share the same human and spiritual needs.

Captures a breathtaking exotic landscape cluttered only by the smugness of its characters.

A tad preachy and more than a little bit sanctimonious.

Rousing, family-friendly item has a big, epic look and state-of-the-art visual effects, which help to make pic -- a high-profile example of the mainstreaming of Christian entertainment.

Easier to sit through than the typical, earnest Christian movie.

Slick, fact-based, missionary-themed drama.

Handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism.

Earnest, fact-based drama is marred only by the fact that it wants desperately to save your soul.

The whole trippy experience is like being held at gunpoint by a Jehovah's Witness at the front door while George Gobel holds forth in the living room on Nickelodeon.

Strangely coy about its denominational allegiance.