Well like other reviewers I was hoping for something good. Movie got the gist of the life of Christ but the movie is not scriptural accurate. Had some things correct but a lot of it is totally wrong... like Judas Iscariot hanging... the beheading of John the Baptist....could not even get Christ crucifixion right he was hung between two thieves.....many other issues..... missed a good opportunity

When I first started watching this I thought, "This isn't very inspired. Oh well, maybe it'll get better when the miracles come along." When Jesus healed a demon possessed boy and said He was speaking to the boy, not the evil inside him, I was thinking, "Okay, the Jesus I know always spoke directly to the demon." When Jesus looked SURPRISED that the boy actually was healed, I thought,"Okay. Now we're in trouble. Bad enough that John the Baptist had to tell Jesus who He was. But now we are messing with the miracles." I stopped watching when Jesus was told John the Baptist was taken prisoner and Jesus gets upset and speaks of "injustice". The icing on the cake was when He said, "Now I know I've not come to bring peace, but a sword." TOTALLY out of context to the point in the REAL Bible when He said that. Enough is enough. My only wish is that I could've given it less than one star. Maybe if I pray for a miracle?

I found this film highly watchable. It was excellent viewing. It presented the historical context of Jesus's life in an intelligent way, explaining the tensions and conflicts between the Romans, their Jewish puppets and the people. There are many moving scenes. Judas and his betrayal are treated in a refreshingly new way, avoiding stereotypes. There is something real and gritty about the portrayal which neither of confirms nor denies that Jesus was truly the son of God. This is a film which can move and appeal to even non- believers because there are no incredible miracles; only a brave and charismatic man preaching a new creed of love and forgiveness in a society where stoning was still the punishment for adultery. You don't have to believe in God to be humbled and moved by this powerful story of that message, and how Jesus paid the ultimate price for confronting and challenging the Jewish religious authorities.

Well, I must admit I got sucked in because Kelsey Grammar was hyped in the ads as part of the cast. The made-for-TV film started out interesting, in a way, with Kelsey stumbling manically with throbbing boiled forehead o'er the ramparts of Jerusalem. OK. He is sufficiently disturbed, and does an OK job. What else do you want from Herod? Next, we get a believable-looking Jesus. Yeah, somebody who could be from that region of the world, not some white-washed European version on a holy card. Oh, some may say, but that ain't the Jesus I pray to. No? I think Jesus was Afro-Asian or Hamito-Semitic, not a bearded Caucasian. There is a difference. Anyway... Good casting, but his wig was frightful. Didn't look like real hair at all. Was that on purpose? The story actually started out pretty good. It seemed like this wasn't going to be just a simple parroting of the story many, many people know by heart. There was character development in the beginning and interesting interaction between the characters, but then as the story progressed, it was as if the plot got away with everyone and things were hurried up and sped up to get to the conclusion. One weirdness is that when Jesus changes Simon's name to Peter, one of the (what I thought was one of the lesser educated) apostles says in an aside to another apostle (and so the audience gets the reference) that Peter is the Greek word for "rock". Well, aside from the fact that there is some debate on the real Jesus' knowledge of Greek vs. poetic license of the authors of the gospels, it was interesting what the script writer and director "left in" and what they "left out" of this Biblical depiction of Jesus' life. I also found the last scene in which Peter gets a boat- load of fish like once before and deduces that "He is risen" or does he say "He's back!"? laughable.