marciserentant What I liked the most for this version of Jesus-picture, is the point of view that Jesus has broken with the tradition of his people to fight for the Promised Land. No more war but look out for peace and freedom in your hearth and the hearth of mankind. It's a very eastern, almost Budhistic view of life.So Jesus didn't want to follow the Zelotes uprating while the sword doesn't (didn't) bring peace. This is a nice switch after the God of wrath in the series starting by Adam and Eve to Esther at the end. Well done.

leeforpresident35 I enjoyed this film immensely I loved Jesus of Nazareth too, but this Jesus laughs,cries, but most importantly.....HE BLINKS HIS EYES!!!!! Seeing G.W. Bailey as Livio it kept reminding me of the "Police Academy" movies. Gary Oldman's Pilate, was very accurate to the description by Josephus, of Pilate's cruelty. I'm probably going to be offending a lot of catholics here, but the storyline was way too Catholicized for my taste. The baptism for example, John the Baptizer puts a cupped handful of water while Jesus is kneeling in the Jordan "Puddle" on Jesus' head the Greek word for baptize is BAPTIZO which means to IMMERSE in the crucifixion scene it looks like a Jew is doing the nailing, The Romans were the ones who did the nailing. and why could they not use the entire Greek Latin and Hebrew on the Title instead of just INRI?? Jaqueline Bisset I believe is too much of a sex symbol to play the Virgin Mary.

nanoweb This film is very good. Optimum of the sort that already attended. Wonderful! Wonderful! The interpretations of the actors had been excellent The photograph direction was excellent The clothes and scenes very good They forgive but my English is very bad Already I attended one ten times I also use to study Really wonderful congratulations for that they had been part of the production Clip would like to ask for permission for to show one created by min with scenes of this film. For a Christian group in Brazil Jesus Debtor blesses here. Tanks. Debtor to all my friends also have the same opinion I really want to show mine clip with scenes of this film therefore it is the best reference that I have

becky While this a very good version I applaud a more human portrayal of Jesus, they have taken a lot of liberties with it and as another user comment says ..they have dumbed down the language a lot. The bit I found most disappointing was the rewriting of Jesus's baptism whereas in the bible john the baptist doesn't want to baptise Jesus saying "I have need to be baptised of thee, and comest thou to me?" and in this version he says "confess your sins and repent" huh!!!! I might be picking hairs but Joseph and Mary did have more children after Jesus but this version does give the impression Jesus was an only child but thats not new with movies based on Jesus's life. As versions go I rate this second, only "jesus of Nazareth" is better, after seeing Mel Gibson's "passion of Christ" recently and finding it totally unrealistic and weird...I think Mel has just done way to many action movies. The actors were all good although I felt Gary oldman playing pontius pilate lacked gravitas also just a bit more of the sermon of the mount would have been nice but that was just a personal taste thing. Overall it was an enjoyable watch even though you do lose a lot of what he did because of time restraints