Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018)
Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held captive in Nero's darkest and bleakest prison cell. Haunted by the shadows of his past misdeeds, Paul wonders if he's been forgotten as he awaits his grisly execution. Before Paul's death, Luke resolves to write another book that details the birth of what will come to be known as the church.
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Load of rubbish!!
A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
The movie in short: Romans are bad, Christians are good. A movie that completely ignores the historical context, and is unfaithful to historical truth. Very boring pace and unremarkable screenplay.
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.
One of the problems with having a pastor as a parent is you have to sit through Christian films to keep them happy. 1st, this is not a historical film. There is no single shred of historical evidence to support any of the Christian faith. The entire new testament was written 50+ years after Jesus supposedly died by 2nd and 3rd hand writers. None of the writers were the original apostles albeit they had the same names... strange right? But they were not the original people and even the church will acknowledge it. So basically, everything in the new testament is hearsay.Anyway, the movie itself was a drag. Very slow paced and the writers obviously added blood and gore to try and keep the viewer awake. Too bad its the 21st century and such things in cinema are more common than cylindrical cups. It simply was not enough to hold my attention any more than nude women or pointless action in other films. My mom liked the movie but then again, any Christian propaganda is a-ok by her so I suppose if you are a Christian, you might enjoy this though I would invest in caffeine drinks before taking a seat.
The story covers Paul going from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Jesus Christ's most influential apostle. Paul, Apostle of Christ seemed like an interesting film to be released on 2018 plus it marks the return of Jim Caviezel (a very talented actor) back in faith based films since the 2004 'Passion of the Christ' the Mel Gibson film that divided audiences and critics alike. Unfortunate tho this new faith based film is missing a few important elements like an interesting story to be told and a good script in general and despite the solid perfomances which were good for the most part? It didn't showcase anything more to it except to waste the time of it's viewers and it's actors. (5.0/10)