carol-70525 Although this movie is poignant and moving, it's far from Biblically correct. There is no account in the Bible of Luke healing the prefect's daughter and, if he would have healed her, it wouldn't have been with earthly medicine. He was a physician, but after his conversion to Christianity, he healed by the Holy Spirit, therefore, he would have simply laid his hands on the girl and she would have been healed. Where is the miraculous in this movie? The apostles and disciples of Christ performed many miracles, signs and wonders which are completely overlooked by this movie. Yes, there were atrocities on the part of the Roman empire but there were also many miracles performed by the followers of Christ and these miracles still happen today! As a follower of Christ and someone who has read and studied the Holy Bible, I am acutely aware of the absence of miracles in this movies. These miracles are still available to us today and we can't honestly call ourselves Christians unless we have the faith to allow Christ to work through us in performing these miracles.

eldorado1384 The movie was good and I liked it, as others said, it's a human based story and you are not just watching a christian movie. but the movie didn't show anything about Paul. because there is so many things wrong about this person. all you know that Paul was the first one who said Jesus is son of God and before him no one ever told that. Paul made many changes in Christianity that it was more on Jews will till Jesus will. those who read the history without prejudice name Paul, Paul the Lier. again I say, this movie did not show anything about lies Paul said and wrong changes he made in Christianity.

lordsoracle I normally do not review movies nor do I bother explaining my ratings except if a movie is really bad, or really good. And thankfully, this one is in the latter category.The story finds Paul in prison under the cruel Emperor Nero, Christians are blamed for a recent fire that burned down half of Rome. Coupled with their message (The Way), they are under terrible persecution and are even being burned to death and used to light up Rome as burning human torches. The group of Christians are terrified by events and very discouraged.Luke makes the perilous journey to Rome and using connections and favors, he makes his way to Paul who is already condemned and awaiting execution. Luke is compelled to persuade Paul to "give direction and hope" through his story and encourage this band of believers who are "daily being led to the slaughter".Unlike the series "The Bible" which feels too "Bibleish", the makers of this film attempt to give us a feel of what it would have been like in those days, with real Christians under immense pressure to give up, to run away from their calling and even to pick up arms and retaliate.For me kudos go to the three main characters, Luke "the Greek" (Jim Caviezel) who really takes on this role without feeling like a reprisal of "The Passion of the Christ", Paul - The Apostle (James Faulkner) who owned the role so well that as a watcher, he really did feel like what Paul would probably be like at the end of his life, and Mauritius (Olivier Martinez) who really plays the role of Chief Warden and former Roman Legionary very well. They also build on the characters of Priscilla and her husband Aquila (Joanne Whalley and John Lynch) quite well and really give us a feel of what they could have experienced back then.Some aspects of the story do suffer from a little bit of plot holes (like how so many Christians could be so openly helped with many joining daily in the middle of Rome without the authorities learning about them and raiding the place). But overall, the story is a rehash with a great touch of humanity on the imagined story behind the writing of the book of Acts (circa 67AD, 30 years after Christ's ascension).It may not do very well at the box office, or perhaps even receive the usual bashing from critics (what do they know any ways - after all they have nothing good to say about any film that tackles Christian themes anyway), but I am certain this one will become a go-to film on how best to tackle historical Christian films around Bible characters without completely killing the story and meaning altogether or being to "academic" and "Bible in visual form" style narration of the source material.I wholly recommend it and will be watching this film repeatedly, thats for sure.

CharbelRahme As a christian, I totally recommend this movie for people who read Paul's letter and know about his life with the early christians communities. The screenplay was well written and was faithful to the scripture, which makes the movie a great witness to the life of Paul who changed after the apparition of Christ to him when he was on the way to persecute believers in the middle east.