Alicia I love this movie so much

Diagonaldi Very well executed

LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Derek Williams "King David" is a entertaining Biblical Epic that stays pretty close to the source story of how a young Hebrew named David ascends to the throne as Israel's second King.I remember reading Rex Reed's review of the film and how much disdain he had for Richard Gere's performance. He said he looked like he was checking behind the camera to make sure no one stole his motorcycle. At the time I thought the raking over the coals was amusing and I had decided not to see the film. I'm sure many other readers of Rex Reed made the same decision as well.Well, on hindsight, Rex Reed and many other " movie reviewers" have done this movie a great disservice. I just saw this "King David" for the first time this year and I thought it was definitely one of the better Biblical Epics to come out of the Hollywood film industry.Fortunately with VHS and DVD, "King David" the movie, has the opportunity to find the audience it should have had twenty five years ago. This movie will find it's audience and as for the words of Rex Reed...

chrismcreynolds The only defense anyone can claim for this project is that it was the first contemporary Biblical film using US actors and contriving to appeal to the broadest possible range (to sell tickets to). That is the only reason I can see for the awful hacks made to the authentic story that has since been done at least once with a far superior script and production in the mid 90s. It was produced with lessor known actors and the focus was instead on authenticity and I have no doubt in the end that far more people have paid to see the latter film in the theater or through video sales. I don't recall if it is called "King David" in the main title or simply "David" with a secondary title more specifically indicating the Biblical story.I bought this film some time in the late 80s, when it was the only video I could find related to any Biblical story, other than "The Ten Commandments" and "Jesus of Nazareth" both of which are truly excellent films. Now that I have the newer version of David, I can't see any reason to take up any more shelf space, even though I already wasted my money on it and time watching it. That is how bad it is. I would feel guilty in playing it now that at least one far superior version in available the fate of this video will be that it is the sole video I have ever thrown in the garbage after determining it a liability with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Elin Johansson First of all, I can't quite understand all the negative response this film has gotten, but perhaps it's because I'm not a fan of the Bible. And might I add, the Bible is not some sort of documentary, it's a fictional book just like many other books. Most likely based on some experiences, some dreams and some tales told by nameless people from the past. The thing I like about this film, is that it portrays the persons as actual people, flawed and emotional. One has to be a cold-hearted, immoral murderer to obey the laws of the "god" as he is portrayed in the Bible. And I get the feeling he (if he has a gender), I rather call greater forces "it" personally, or "she" as females are better at creating life than males; I get the feeling that he would be rather disappointed at the humans, and the ones who probably misread all the signs he gave. But, we'll never know, so it doesn't really matter. When David follows his heart, I think he does the only right thing a person can do. One can read signs whatever way one wants, therefor it's impossible to know what a "god" would want. If there is one, or several, we simply don't speak the same language. And, to avoid horrible mistakes, I would rather follow my own heart and best judgement, than to murder and sacrifice and make enemies at the rate that the prophets would have David do. I think David in this movie is a very sympathetic person, and it's a well acted film about religion and it's complexity.

YAS For many years now this movie has remained my personal choice for Worst Movie Ever Made. Oh sure, others have come along to try to knock it off its pedestal, but KING DAVID remains, in that respect anyway, King of the Hill, A-Number One, Top Of The Heap. It's amazing to see so much money and talent poured into a fascinating, large-scale story of murder and betrayal and gods and scheming women and intrigue, only to result in a dreary stink-bomb of a flick that should forever stand as a cautionary lesson to those who would make a Sunday School story out of material that is, in the original, decidedly adult. The end result here is a movie that is embarrassingly awful even on fast-forward.