Son of God, Hollywood English Film movie review, Johnson Thomas, Rating: * * 1/2
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<a
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English Film review
Johnson Thomas
Film: Son of
God
Cast: Diogo Morgado, Greg Hicks, Adrian Schiller,
Darwin Shaw, Sebastian Knapp, Joe Wredden, Simon Kunz, Paul Marc Davis, Matthew
Gravelle, Amber Rose Revah, Roma Downey
Director: Christopher
Spencer
Rating: * * ½
Spencer directs this sweeping Biblical epic
detailing the life of Jesus Christ (Diogo Morgado) from his birth in Bethlehem right
up to the Resurrection.+ This film is
basically a big screen condensation of History channel’s “ The Bible”
miniseries- Ten hours of footage chopped down to size the 138 min feature
length time.
In terms of storyline, the film has all the
highlights of Jesus’ life pat down. The miracles are there and so are the
parables. But the story doesn’r have enough depth mainly because there’s little
in the form od exposition to detail the myth. It tries hard to shock and
awewith it’s preachy format and hunky sermonizing. And after a point gets on
your nerves bigtime. The production values are pretty good, costumes are
impressive, action and violence are convincing enough, Morocco makes a great
stand0in for Jesus country yet there appears to be something drastically
missing in the experience. The drama is certainly not sharp enough and
especially because the magic is not impressionable enough. As long as the film
deals with the politics of those times, it works.
After a quick montage through the Old Testament’s
highlight moments and the nativity scene, the biopic finds thirty something
Jesus (Portuguese model-turned-actor Diogo Morgado) on a metaphoric rise soothsaying his way to instant stardom. The
actor Morgado, essaying Jesus, doesn’t have the expressiveness to make the
experience weighty or meaningful. He can smile beatifically and look hunky but
that’s. There’s little else to him. Peter (Darwin Shaw) is the one with all the
emotion. While Jesus inadvertently stirs up ethnic pride and unrest in outlying
Nazareth, Pilate and the Jewish high priest Caiaphas (Adrian Schiller) plot
jointly and independently to launch a public relations campaign that discredits
the prophet as a blasphemer and neutralizes the threat of political revolt. The
governmental intrigue is the mainstay of this film. That’s the only time things
get absorbing enough. The scripting
credited to Spencer, Richard Bedser,
Colin Swash, and Nic Young, has it’s drawbacks due mainly to the condensation
and reconfiguration effort. Everything appears a little too strippy and
discontinuous. The narration is better suited to a Sunday school
project, the cgi is pathetic and the actors, though good looking, look too dumb
to be believable as catalysts of a civilization shaping eventology. It’s got all the big moments of Jesus life in
focus but the in-between ones which could have added more depth in the characterization
are missing. Greg
Hicks as Pontius; (coproducer) Roma Downey as the Virgin Mary; Amber Rose Revah
as Mary Magdalene; Adrian Schiller as Caiaphas, the leader of the council of
Jews; Darwin Shaw as Peter; Joe Wredden as Judas are all similarly handicapped
by poor direction, bad scripting and underdeveloped characterization. ‘Son of
God’ may do the trick for the faithful but for the discerning one it’s just a
little too slap-dash to be meaningful!
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