Against Time (2007)

A relatively low budget, Christian, time travel movie with a baseball theme, I didn’t have a lot of expectations for this one, but was willing to try it out based on the cast and the theme. I was mostly pleasantly surprised. Robert Loggia travels back in time to prevent a young baseball player from making a grave mistake that will adversely affect his future. Loggia is the strong point in the film. He admirably carries off the various moments of lucidity, despair, and desperation that are required of his character. The teen actors aren’t great and I wanted to fast forward through any scene involving the love interest, especially since for some reason she was costumed by a deranged lunatic. Craig T. Nelson was underutilized as the baseball player’s father. Sadly John Amos seemed to only be in the film to push various political points, like coerced school prayer. Despite that, there are some good ideas in the story about the potential costs of taking short cuts and has a fairly solid timeline development.