Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

billcr12 Jesus of Montreal is a play within a movie; in this case The Passion Play. However, the actors do a little rewrite, with changes which anger many traditional Catholics. One of the is that a Roman soldier was Jesus' real father and left right after the Savior's birth; ouch.Daniel, the actor playing Jesus, has an accident and is taken to a Catholic hospital and he is ignored. He leaves and winds up at a Jewish hospital, where he collapses and is pronounced brain dead. He has no relatives, and so his friends are asked for consent to take his organs. The film is an allegory on the life of Christ, using Daniel, as a parallel figure. He has just returned from the east. The other actors have left good, safe jobs, in order to do the play, becoming Daniel's disciples. With the donation of his organs, Daniel is resurrected by saving the lives of others. Jesus of Montreal is a bold vision by director Denys Arcand.

MARIO GAUCI I had been impressed by this on first viewing (despite its being in French only), watched on another Good Friday several years ago; a second look (and the benefit of English subtitles) only reinforces its inherent quality. This is an absorbing, original, savage, funny, and frequently stunning piece of work - although, in view of its subject matter, it does have the occasional heavy-going passage. In fact, Jesus OF MONTREAL was expected to emerge victorious at that year's Academy Awards as the Best Foreign Language Film: facing stiff competition from the likes of CAMILLE CLAUDEL (1988) and CINEMA PARADISO (1989), the honor was eventually bestowed on the latter - a nostalgia piece with child interest, it was an altogether safer bet (though I've yet to catch the film in its entirety myself!)...Despite their over-familiarity, the 'Passion Play' sequences are quite powerful - thanks also to excellent performances all around. Lothaire Bluteau is quietly impressive in the demanding central role (of an actor who eventually goes mad from playing Christ!); incidentally, he followed this with another spiritual film - BLACK ROBE (1991). Arcand seems to be one of the most interesting auteurs around, as the only other film of his that I've watched - THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS (2004; which did win him an Oscar) - is also superb (apart from being equally thought-provoking and controversial). Speaking of which, I find Jesus OF MONTREAL to be superior to that other notorious Christ-movie of the day - Martin Scorsese's THE LAST TEMPTATION OF Christ (1988)...

Fred Sharp "Jésus de Montréal" is one of the best modern realizations of what Christianity is becoming in the hands of Western Culture. The film clearly shows how current Christian leaders are becoming what Jesus himself strode to part from when he parted from the corrupted Jewish community he belonged to. Daniel, the main character, is paralleled to Jesus in so many ways (Daniel gathers actors::Jesus gather disciples, Daniel destroys the corrupt acting studio::Jesus destroys the temple where money lending is occurring, et cetera). These parallels are clearly in place to show how modern Christianity is reversing its role in how it spreads and teaches religion.Lothaire Bluteau does an outstanding job acting as the almost-famous-starving-for-food- but-at-the-same-time-doing-well-for-himself- and-meeting-people-in-high-places actor, while Robert "The Page" Lepage pulls off a difficultly humorous yet unrefined René.I spell "colour" with a 'u' because I am British.Of course, one of the film's greatest strength's is that is not American-based. This also leads to the most disappointing part of the film: It was not written, directed, or produced by Hindus. If the film had more Indian influence it would be much stronger, as Bollywood and all Hindu-related films are far superior than anything Western civilization can produce.

Leos Erp Brilliant piece of movie, especially fragments of road show! Movie talks about basic human values, vs. hypocrisy of the religion and society; talks about real artists and affectation of mediocrity found in show business, relationships and art. A movie that doesn't belong to high profit type of Hollywood junk production for wide masses. It contains bright and simple thoughts, for the way to soul calmness that we have forgotten... The real religion is the one, there aren't institution and leaders, only human being and love. This is movie about urban kind of the Christ, but Christ isn't person, Christ is a state of soul. Everyone can do it with simplicity, truth and liberty of your life. God is in you, not on the sky or in church corporations! Love&Sun, LeOS