Along with the criticisms others have added, I wish to add my complaints about the way this film mostly ignored the high points in the life of Jesus.
The story of him comforting the lady with leprosy was presented in such a way as to appear that nothing happened to her other than that Jesus was nice to her.
Almost all the other stories considered miraculous were omitted. When we got to the Last Supper--the key part of the scene was omitted.
I couldn't help but compare this to the 11 p.m. sports reader presenting us highlights of, let's say, a Tiger 6-5 win over the Yankees. He shows 2 minutes of clips of the game, 18 plays in all: 6 pitches that were simply called "Ball Two" by the umpire, 4 pop-up outs, 3 ground-outs, 3 fly outs, one single, and one run scoring on a wild pitch. Fans would be screaming, "Where are the highlights?" The crucifixion scene presented Jesus on the right side of the trio, instead of in the middle. Didn't matter, I guess, since in this film there was no exchange of words with the other two victims.
It was almost strange at the beginning, when we saw a new-born baby, but he seemed to just be in a room--not a stable/manger of any kind, and there was nothing else about the going's on in Bethlehem.
Jesus was depicted as having no idea who he really was, at least, for almost all of his life. Since the Bible makes it clear that his earthly parents knew from the get-go, I think it would be hard to figure they never told him what they knew--if indeed he didn't already know.
The oddest thing was that, at times, Jesus and a couple of the others seemed to be speaking with a Scottish accent. Now this wasn't true throughout the film, which only makes it more bizarre.
I liked many of the settings and costumes and there were some good scenes, but if you're going to present, under any title, a film depicting someone's life...
...for the love of...you know...include the scenes that almost anyone would say were the high points of the man's life!
The story of him comforting the lady with leprosy was presented in such a way as to appear that nothing happened to her other than that Jesus was nice to her.
Almost all the other stories considered miraculous were omitted. When we got to the Last Supper--the key part of the scene was omitted.
I couldn't help but compare this to the 11 p.m. sports reader presenting us highlights of, let's say, a Tiger 6-5 win over the Yankees. He shows 2 minutes of clips of the game, 18 plays in all: 6 pitches that were simply called "Ball Two" by the umpire, 4 pop-up outs, 3 ground-outs, 3 fly outs, one single, and one run scoring on a wild pitch. Fans would be screaming, "Where are the highlights?" The crucifixion scene presented Jesus on the right side of the trio, instead of in the middle. Didn't matter, I guess, since in this film there was no exchange of words with the other two victims.
It was almost strange at the beginning, when we saw a new-born baby, but he seemed to just be in a room--not a stable/manger of any kind, and there was nothing else about the going's on in Bethlehem.
Jesus was depicted as having no idea who he really was, at least, for almost all of his life. Since the Bible makes it clear that his earthly parents knew from the get-go, I think it would be hard to figure they never told him what they knew--if indeed he didn't already know.
The oddest thing was that, at times, Jesus and a couple of the others seemed to be speaking with a Scottish accent. Now this wasn't true throughout the film, which only makes it more bizarre.
I liked many of the settings and costumes and there were some good scenes, but if you're going to present, under any title, a film depicting someone's life...
...for the love of...you know...include the scenes that almost anyone would say were the high points of the man's life!