oct-69927 As a Muslim who is from Medinah and an academic in Islamic law, I thought there will not be a film about Prophet Mohammed that is so accurate.But this movie really is a success, and I liked how they include just the facts that all sects in Islam agree upon and avoided any controversial reports. It is the best movie for anyone who is interested to know about this story from an unbiased source.Hope you enjoy it.Peace be upon you.

Ahmad-Mohammad This great achievement which shows the message of Islam and of the best technical achievements ever it shows the true image of the Islamic yen demonstrates how Islam spread that Islam is a religion of peace.I cannot Sawa say that this film is the best cinema produced is the true message and the image of the clear terms the religion of Islam Al Akkad Director thanked for this effort by also technical crew and all artists who were quickly whisked this fine art, physician.I wish this presence of the film in the list of the best 250 film because he deserves that exist in the list so that all know this work presented by US contended Al Akkad.

rafsany2012 One of the best movies on Islam. May be the best by far. great effort by the Director, producer, artists and co-artists. Mustafa Akkhad did a wonderful job creating an epic movie. Dir. Al Akkad faced challenges in many ways. The increasing pressure from Saudi Arabia to shutdown the production caused some delays. The king Hassan of Morocco, Al Gaddafi of Libya and King Khalid bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia financially supported the full production of this film. with the full support from the Libyan and Moroccan Govt the production team finally came to an end. The major roles played the actors in this movie in terms withe time fact was extraordinary. Specially the role of "Anthony Quinn" as "Hamza", "Michael Ansara" as "Abu Sofyan", "Michael Forest" as "Khalid", "André Morell" as "Abu-Talib" was amazing.

ansreaganite-845-889351 Cinematically, it was pretty good. Clearly a lot of work went into the sets, costumes & locations. While the acting was adequate, I have to disagree with other reviews in that I did not think it was Anthony Quinn's greatest work. Maybe because I viewed it through the lens of Christianity or maybe it was the way the actors talked to the camera when addressing Mohammed (i.e., it is against Islam to show the likeness of Mohammed - sort of a parallel to Jews never wring the word God - they spell it G-d), the movie had an odd "vibe" about it. The story itself is difficult to follow, much like the Koran itself. Though downplayed in the movie, early messages from God conflicted with later messages. It also plays up the 'peaceful' side of Islam, (but there again the movie has some fantastic battle scenes, if you overlook the overly fake looking blood) which stands in stark contrast to the evidence we see on the nightly news. Ideally, every Muslim would embrace the teachings of this movie and renounce the more radical teachings - not just the modern day "terrorist" mindset, but the way the early Muslims treated women in the early years seems to be quite different than today. I can't think of a Christian equivalent of this movie, as most movies about early Christianity only tell a small portion of the story. This movie attempts to explain the roots of Islam from when Mohammed began hearing from God at age 40, in about 610 AD to the full establishment of Islam around the world. It does to a reasonably good job for the early parts of Islam, but I kind of got lost in all the who's fighting who scenes. It was apparently all historically verified at the time of its making by Islamic scholars,which is explained at the beginning and end of the movie, which only adds to the eerie feeling the movie being less documentary and more propagandist. So, in short, the cinematic presentation is quite good, but the story is hard to follow and I felt it had a propagandist "vibe" throughout the movie. If you have 3 hours to kill and are interested in the subject matter, you'll likely enjoy it. For me I got restless in the middle when I started to get confused about who is battling who and for what reason.