Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

gellerman02 This film tries to hard to mix both art-house and religion . It FAILS . The pace of the film is so slow i felt as though i,d fallen asleep and had to skip back a few minutes just to make sure i hadn't .The cinematography although good dose very little to enhance the viewing pleasure and the rehashed Asian version of the resurrection is utterly ridiculous . Josh Hartnett gives a decent performance but is let down by the really poor story . The Asian cast at times are very hard to understand but i think that might have something to do with the sound track running into the dialogue continuously . The long lingering moody stares by all the characters in the movie get a bit tedious after a while and probably account for fifteen to twenty minutes of movie time or to put it another way MY TIME WASTED.

thebogofeternalstench I turned this movie off half way through, I was bored to death.It looks like a cross between a student film and a doco. The editing is terrible, and the story so boring you just don't care.There is just nothing there to keep you interested, at all.The only good thing I can say about the movie is that the blood/cuts etc fx were great, very realistic.The movie just cuts from one random scene to another, which makes it seem very amateur. There isn't a pinch of substance, the movie felt really hollow.I would not recommend wasting your time watching this movie at all.

a4447304 This is one of the best film I have watched. In fact, I watched it twice, and the second time on, I gave it a standing ovation. This film is a piece of art, just like a canvas to Tran Anh Hung ready to paint his imagination for the world to see. It may leave audience baffled after watching it, but you need to watch the details to know the story. This movie is Tran Anh Hung's interpretation of the Life of Christ, it is a fusion of mafia, rock, detective all roll into one. You can call it a misinterpretation of the Bible, but hey, this is art, he has the freedom to express himself. To me, this rocks more than The Passion of Christ, because it got substance.

basribaba With a first glance, I thought the movie was OK. Although it has a further Asian cast and director, Josh Hartnett and Elias Koteas give a small piece of hope. I can be objective because I am neither Western oriented nor eastern cultured and not a Christ follower either. This movie's editing is just a piece of s..t. The sequences and continuity is so bad that you got lost in time and place. Jump backs two years earlier, and forwarding to current time, personal flash backs and more so we got confused. The music is a great loud, hardly instrumental and melodically. You have to reduce the volume to concentrate on the screen. Irritating human sculptures wants to make every watcher puke. Shitao is Christ or Saint i don't care. Just why is he going to Hong Kong? Can anyone explain why? I just Don't like the movie, Don't like Hartnett's meaningless staring, Koteass' worthless mumbling and preaching. Just 1 is enough for this movie.