Christo Streak Despite all the bad comments on this film, I think it was excellent. I haven't read the book and it inspired me to order the book. Many complaints about the Masada but nobody actually knew how it look liked 2000 thousand years ago. I think this leaves you with a beautiful imagination to how it really was, and you can think of this film after-wards with more violence and more brutal suffering and more sex and more drama. Today all over the world we are still struggling with immigrants, Xenophobia, and Isis. The craving for power never stopped. This was a good summary of a bad tragedy that we are seeing on the news today. Very well played in a mannered way. Vibrant colors and scenery throughout the film. Good Story in general. And most certainly a DVD that I would own and watch again when I need to be inspired.

lawriter77 I was expecting so much more, though I knew nothing of the novel so I really had no idea what to expect. But after watching the first two episodes of A.D. from the same producers, it was a little jarring to watch a sexed-up desert soap opera with barely a token hint of the Jewish faith actually expressed, where all the heroines are sleeping with other women's husbands or mixing potions or killing Romans ("As the World Burns" ... "One Life to End" ... "All My Illegitimate Children" ... take your pick). The modern language was an unnecessary annoyance, and the insertion of a 21st-Century Western Liberal female perspective was noticeable throughout. (The women's perspective was the core of the story, of course. But it came across a little too "today" for me.) Particularly disturbing was the adulterous witch successfully invoking the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by name to call down rain and save herself from a mob execution so she could continue her affair with another woman's husband. I don't think so. I recorded this and watched it over two nights while I did my taxes. One form of torture mitigating the other, I guess. Which one was which, I'm not sure at the moment.

bbriddell I watched because my family members were watching. We had just finished watching a good show; and I wanted to continue engaging in social time.I stopped watching part 1 about 5 minutes from the end. It may have had some kind of story and it seemed like other than the story being told was important to the Romans for posterity; I'm not sure why? This Romance Novel even went as far to tell the audience their formula; when the Roman tells them, "I use my head to think not my heart". So, men use their head and women use their heart. Seriously, pen to paper for this story back in this time frame? Moreover, typing on a keyboard today for this twaddle? Women in bright outfits, like jewels in the desert. Handsome strapping men. Throw some magic/witchcraft in. I'm not sure if there were any Zombies in part two, they did have a ghost from the grave in part one. They had the money, time, and everything else; so my conclusion is best summed up by Forest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does."

raymondelp The Dovekeepers is totally boring and unwatchable. Is this program about women who constantly sleep around in the dirt like animals who happen to be persecuted by the Romans or is it about the Romans persecuting a group of women who happen to constantly sleep around in the dirt like animals? Folks, this is nothing more than a modern-day soap opera that happens to be set in the days of the Jewish diaspora. It's a slap in the face of Jews like myself portraying men like horn-dogs and women like throw-away prostitutes who can't say no. As usual, the portrayal in this program of Jews is offensive; nothing more than uneducated dunces, loose women, dirty, greedy, sheepish,and uncaring. Just because the Shema and the Shehecheyanu are chanted does not make this program credible. Total junk.