Is it THAT bad? Yes, it is THAT bad. Is it FUNNY bad? About half the time it is FUNNY bad (thus the “C-“) so it is worth checking out if you are into this sort of thing. Unlike the films of Ed Wood, you can’t revel in its charming low-budget, but you can marvel in its total misplaced confidence. And the fact that 98% of the movie is shot with a cocked-angle camera. Only Forest Whittaker seems to be winking, but maybe that’s just me hoping. At first I thought Travolta’s dastardly quasi-British accent (I half expected him to tie women to train tracks) was meant as some sort of Johnny Depp subversion — but no, it is just bad acting. With the L. Ron Hubbard connection, one can certainly call this Travolta’s “Passion of the Christ.” If only there were more Scientologists out there this’d’ve made as much dough as Mel’s awful (and less humorous) picture.