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Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

MrJordan_Number23 I went into this movie hoping for an imaginative twist on the Second Coming. Boy, was I ever wrong. BBC are dullards at pacing a movie, total idiots at creating suspense, fools at building intensity. And this movie is no exception to the rule of how much BBC sucks.Ugh, the pacing and time-wasting laborious dialogue was just painful to sit through. The first 30 minutes felt like 2 hours. I kept looking down at my watch wondering when the pointless, monotonous drivel would end. They wasted a perfectly good actor in the lead role, because the material is so lazy, and sloppily, written. Everything that happens is just to kill time.Out of 155 minutes, only 15 minutes are interesting (the controversial ending). What a shame. Reading the plot summary is more interesting than watching the movie. The preaching, the "am I God" endless blah blah blah-ing, the dumb as doornails boring miracles... UGH.DO NOT WATCH THIS CRAP.

lilith93 I really liked this movie, even if I'm not sure what to think of the ending. But one thing I simply love about British movies is that they're brave enough to use actors that don't look like actors. All the characters in the movie look like real people. Not ugly, but not all pretty either. It's one of many things that makes me grateful that this wasn't made by an American studio. Every actor played their role believably, making you care both about their characters and the story they were in. And the story... well it makes you think. It makes you wonder about your own life and the role of religion in it.It makes you wonder about the bible, about the role of God in the world. It doesn't try to tell you what to think. I love that Judith isn't a believer at the start. I love that she keeps asking for proof, that she keeps being the voice that says. "but he's just Steve" Because no prophet is ever believed in his own village.And I love that Steve is a regular guy. Just like Jesus in his time, was just a regular guy until he started preaching. I love the humanity of it, because that's what the son of God is supposed to be. The son of man, as Jesus called himself at least once. Like I said, I'm not sure about the ending, but really, that's a good thing. It'd be worse if it were an ending you'd be sure of, because then you wouldn't have to think anymore. And that's the great thing about this movie. It doesn't 'tell' you what you're supposed to think.

benc7ca I rented the dvd (appropriately enough) over the Easter weekend and it made for a very interesting diversion from the usual sappy, soppy, silly "resurrection" of religious movies we get bombarded with at this time of year. The acting was very good and the premise even better. Episode one was excellent and I wondered how the director was going to bring this to a resolution in episode two. Well, I loved the ending but I am, like other viewers, foxed as to how it came about. The peculiar logic of the film was compromised by a sudden revelation I'm not convinced the character would have(or could have) had. Nevertheless, I recommend this to anyone who has had their fill of the Mel Gibson/right wing/heaven- forbid-we-have-an-original-thought treatments of spiritual subjects.

losercoop In my opinion, the ending is what completely ruined the whole thing. The initial idea of having someone suddenly realize they were the son of god and the second coming was somewhat clever. People started to believe him and his friends became the new disciples. People went nutty, demons were possessing people, all kinds of fun. Of course then it all went wrong. It was bad enough that they had to take on the impossible task of looking through a vast amount of writings to find the "third testament" in five days, but then at the end it became this ridiculous humanist fantasy. I won't spoil it, but I'll just say it comes off as if it were written by a teenager with a very limited knowledge of theology. I hear they are making an American feature version of this story, I just hope they change the eye rolling ending.