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Worst Jesus film ever!


I've bought the DVD and saw everything in details. Aweful! 70% is invented dialogue even in his "message" which is Sunday superficial sermon that nobody understands for real. The worst hippy stick wig since Jeffrey Hunter did King of Kings. It's okey to present a human Messiah but 3 times playing games and running , splashing water with the disciples and twice dancing? John Baptist episode of baptism is completely innaccurate, specialy that sprinkling of water over the heads while in those days was SUBMERSION under the water. And so is Samaritan woman at the well scenes. Mary is omnipresent to teach Marianism worship the Gospels never teach. Christ driven by emotions is overacted. Sermon Mount is a modern interpretation that hardly quotes Christ's words. Thomas with his only-one-facial-gesture-Judas-sort-of-rat-face was even more boring than Patrick William's musical score no matter how many claps he received. Jews took care of their beards but as usual they cast apostles and extras with a-week-beard because they ran out of time schedule maybe.
Even acknowledging Messiah spent 40 days in the desert it doesn't mean he had to be right under the fierce sun to make wounds in his skin like Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly!
Christians usually completely ignore the meaning of Christ message and I think each one of them should URGENTLY run to nearest bookstore or library and read Osho/Rajneesh comments in "Come Follow Me: Teachings on Jesus" and "Mustard Seed" among others to find out a refreshing and deeper understanding instead of stupid and completely empty interpretations made on your local Sunday church whatever your denomination and your church and I have to tell you, don't trust my words even if I say I have tortured my eyes for decades studying all these things and reading almost 2000 pages of the Bible with nano-letters size and 2 columns. This film's message like the explanations served in the churches are both litter, rotten... something to be given to dead people burying dead people.
Positive things of the film: the light of the filming, as yellow & orange as Matrix is green and blue; the desert filmed in Morocco; the neighborhood areas; ships were okey and so the miracle of Christ walking on water giving a hand to Peter's lack of faith; the resurrection of Christ among the coward disciples was okey too within the closed room. Pharisees should've used purple garments as well and so Christ went Herodes put him a robe to mock him. Usually all films present a red robe instead of a purple one worn by royalty members. I could say most of the crowd had nice clothes but WHITE robes were usually forbidden unless they were mourning their deads or if Christ were an Essenian and it seems for several reasons he was not.
But good photograph and nice costumes don't make a good film.

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o wholey agree..this movie is *beep*

"Cuz everything so *beep* histerical"

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You think you could separate your criticism into paragraphs instead of one big blob? I couldn't read it it was all just smashed together

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How dare they put INVENTED DIALOGUE into a biblical film ! obviously there are verbatim, written transcripts of all that was said..somewhere...no? oh...your point seems a bit silly then.

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Jesus wasn't white...

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Of course he was...and so is god...never heard the expression GOD IS AN ENGLISHMAN. Are you SERIOUSLY telling me Jesus was one of these foreign types...ballderdash and piffle sir! why that wouldnt be cricket..

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I 'ought that Jezuz was Kenyan

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They have CG ideas of what Jesus might have looked like...Kind of goofy, not going to lie. Not nearly as marketable as aryan Jesus I guess...

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Agree. The Portrayal of Jesus was so wrong.

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