Son of God (2014)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Load of rubbish!!

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Seriously, if Jesus knew when to shut his big mouth, he wouldn't have gotten tortured and killed. He was warned many times to stop yapping nonsense but he continued and continued. I truly believe the Jews must have thought that Jesus was mentally retarded and decided to kill him. Jesus' followers (who were probably not right in the head also) decided to write a book about him and make up stuff that he apparently can do. This movie is a HBO SERIES that had been out for some time, but the producers realized that RELIGIOUS folks would pay money to see anything about their "God." The producer cut up the HBO series down into 2 hours and put it in the theaters. I guess it worked because this movie made enough money.This is a TV series so the production is TV quality. This means that the film moves at a different framerate, the lighting is off, the costumes look like Halloween shop stuff, and the acting is just average.SKIP THIS MOVIE. Stop the brainwashing now. NO MORE brainwashing. This movie just shows you how silly the concept of Jesus is. He can't walk on water, it is impossible. He can't turn water to wine. Crazy man, this movie is an acid trip.

I am disappointed in this film. I only made it through 37 minutes before shutting it off. I (reasonably) enjoyed The Bible miniseries and had high hopes for this movie, but they took way too much liberty with it. I understand about wanting to make it more in line with what his life may have been like and making Him more relatable to us, but this was too much liberty. They added words, and actions and just made it disappointing. Honestly, I'm surprised we sell it at the Christian store I work at.

Please, you make a film about Jesus Christ, and you omit in the Last Supper--- THE moment where Jesus talks about the new and ever lasting covenant of his BLOOD that was shed for your SINS. You leave out the part where he says Make disciples, teaching everything I have commanded, BAPTIZING in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Jesus does not go into the tomb and kiss Lazarus, he calls him out! He does not tell Peter Before dawn you will deny me 3 times....He said before the rooster crows you will deny me three times...What's wrong with using the words Christ actually said? Too boring? This movie tells lies...I had to double check my Bible several times because I knew dialogue was miss quoted...So many errors....too sad....and the most important message: If anyone will come after me, you must DENY yourself pick up your cross and follow me. And you want me to get excited about this movie? Then again you have fake Joel Osteen, fake Rick Warren, fake Delia Reese,commenting on how wonderful this movie is? Thank God he chastised me to read my Bible so I don't get duped. Being a Christian is not saying some little prayer and crying when you listen to some Christian song in a concert or in church, it is DENYING YOURSELF---- you are giving up everything, all worldly wants (Joel Osteen, listen up!) needs and your desires, and give it all to God and let HIM have his will and way with you, "Christian"!-----Not a very rosy, lovely-dovely, petals in the wind message uh?

I liked it. It did have my issues. For example, he calls Peter by that name right off, rather than Simon. Big issue. The name was changed so that Peter could be called "rock" to signify his deep faith as the Fathers teach us.Also the trial thing before Pilate is way off. And Pilate, who is a saint in the Orthodox tradition (he converted)is depicted too harshly. True, he was harsh before he converted, but in the case of Christ's Passion, he was mild, trying to avoid punishing him so far as possible. They depicted his wife, Claudia (St. Claudia) rather well, though not as clearly as they could have. Pilate seemed a mix of cruel and more kind. Gibson did a good job of balancing it out. Likely because he researched the oral traditions about Pilate and Claudia, who converted. There are a few accounts, generally positive, of this. The main point is that the whole trial is way off. It does not give the full account, and he was tried in private in this movie. Pilate asked the whole "what is truth" in some inner place in his palace. Totally off. How did the Gospel writers know this happened then? They wrote based on what they saw, which is why their are small discrepancies in the Gospel accounts, though yes they were guided by the Holy Spirit, etc.Then there is the Nicodemus thing. It's inaccurate how they depict his going to Jesus. He came a NIGHT according to St John, not day like in the film.Anyway, the good points. A thing many may not notice, but Mary is depicted in blue according the Catholic tradition--look at Marian art and notice this. Blue signifies her purity. Also, the bread and wine clearly are represented as literal body and blood.Some have said this is hippy love dovey. I do not think so. Maybe because they do not know the understanding of Christ according to the one, holy, catholic and apostolic tradition, but a fundamentalist one. They might do well to read the compassionate Desert Fathers, who though they lived strict lives, taught gentleness and love. There are many doctrinal accuracies in this movie first of all that the non-Christian watcher may not notice. Or the Protestant perhaps, that is someone who has no understanding of the Fathers of the Church. I do not see how Jesus was some hippy in this movie. I just do not see it. I think he is depicted accurately. I was very happy to see that this movie was not full of vile heresy. Hollywood's Jesus is often, well....Anyway, aside from the errors of Scripture on a superficial level, the substance of the Gospel and doctrine are followed. It is clearly a very Roman Catholic leaning film. Maybe that is why some Christians do not like it.