Movie Reviews for The Bible - Esther

The Bible - Esther

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Movie Reviews of The Bible - Esther

Movie Review: simply put..fairly accurate!
Summary: 3 Stars

It helps us remember the Biblical story and the intervention of the God of Israel in His People's lives. It also helps to be reminded that satan/the evil one works to try and stop God from keeping His Covenants with His People (including those of Judah during the account of Esther), as well reminds us of the lineage of Mashiakh Ben Yosef's mother [Miriam] which may have been in those who experienced this story of "Purim." Satan has always tried to "thwart" HaShem's Plans.

Very Biblically accurate (at least very close) movie on Purim, from "The Bible" series films. If you saw THIS version, you wouldn't be disappointed in the story-line. But getting the "One Night With The King" version is quite disappointing due to it's liberality with the Biblical account.

This "The Bible- Esther" film is very enjoyably accurate and rewarding! The authentic feeling of the movie props/sets, the political issues happening at the time, the differing types of Jews at that point in history, and the power of the Gentile nations are all given time in this movie. If it wasn't for our exception below, we'd say "get it!" The actors do well, and you FEEL the issues at hand. A spirituality is brought forth, just as the Spirituality you pull from the Biblical account Itself.

My family loved to watching this movie. We made it a point to watch it during Purim...though it would have been enjoyed throughout the year too.

We would like to recommend adding this one too, to anybody's Biblical movie shelf. BUT we have one exception which we'll address last herein.

It's done fairly well, Biblically accurate for the most part, and conveys the same message as the Scriptures tend to in the Biblical areas it traverses. Our family enjoyed this one, on many levels. We'd say "buy this one!" as it's pretty good....but again....

The one exception to us recommending this film, is going to only strike a positive/helpful note with few people (we realize), but nevertheless....the problem we have with this film is that real live human beings with real life families (husbands, and/or wives, and/or children) are being intimate with other people outside of their family all for the sake of "it's just a job, it's acting." We personally don't believe that God will every approve body-close-holding and smooching, as "just a job so it's okay" when it comes to non-married people. You simply won't find that kind of behavior ever supported or condoned in the Bible. As i said, we realize this won't be a popular stance, in a Media-soaked culture, but nonetheless...it's the flat truth. So we cannot recommend you actually buy this film. There ARE films on the market, few though, that have actual actors who are husbands and wives being intimate on screen...or that have husbands and wives pictured who aren't married outside the movie but BARELELY touch in any intimate way (like FireProof, Facing the Giants, Time Changer, Flywheel, and others). We recommend you just place your own family member in the actor's spot, and see how you'd feel watching your partner or child doing the intimacy with a complete stranger (IN FRONT OF THEIR CHILDREN OR SPOUSE). Thanks for "listening."

Movie Review: Could have been much better
Summary: 3 Stars

I like very much the story of Esther as found in the Bible, but I must say that in this movie many aspects could have been better. My criticism is that first the rivalry of Aman v/s Mardoqueo is not stressed enough, I think the director could have made more scenes on which to show the tension between Aman and Mardoqueo produced by the denial of Mardoqueo to bow before Aman, also they could have shown more anger in the character of Aman due to this situation, the movie shows an Aman that seems to care very few about Mardoqueo's behaviour which contradicts the story as told in the Bible. Second, the king Asuero is represented almost as a foolish youngster which I don't think was the real case and third and most important at the apex of the whole story, that is, when Esther finds out about the royal decree of extermination of the jewish people, she isn't shown weeping hard enough and putting on the top of her head rubbish but most important when she decides to go into the presence of the king she doesn't go with her woman assistant and she doesn't faint away like is told in the Bible. This omission is very bad because as told in the Bible it is at this precise moment that God changes king Asuero's heart from anger to tenderness for Esther, this pasage is completely omitte Also the king is not shown full of power, glory and (initial) profound anger at this moment. Also when Aman takes Mardoqueo to go on a ride in the royal horse, he doesn't shout "This is what you do with the man the king wants to honor" and this stage of the story last nothing at all in the movie. In short, this is a film that could have been much better and I guess we still will have to wait for a better movie to be done for this lovely story.

Movie Review: Okay
Summary: 3 Stars

Esther is the classic tale of the Jewish girl who wins the heart of a debauched king and in doing so manages to save her people the Jews from certain death at the hands of an evil courtier. This film was dazzlingly filmed in Morocco, and I particularly thought the set design, costuming and cinematography was well done.

I felt the storyline was a trifle weak. For instance, it seems instantaneously that Esther wins the heart of the king; however, the film fails to show why. There isn't an ounce of passion or chemistry between the king and Esther, and aside from being a good person Esther isn't that pretty nor is there much of an explanation to her instant rise to fame. The King's portrayal doesn't make this any easier, as he does very little except issue negligent commands which while biblically true, doesn't exactly endear the viewer, and while doubtless Esther spent most of her life in a harem, very little of the dynamics of harem living are portrayed.

I felt this was ok. I would've liked the king to be a more charismatic character to possibly explain why Esther loved him. I would've liked there to be more chemistry between Esther and the king. As it was, the Eunuch's were more interesting which is probably not what the filmmaker was going for.

Still, this was an entertaining film, worth a watch for the costumes and scenary. But I wasn't that impressed with the acting or the love story.

Movie Review: Mostly well acted except...
Summary: 3 Stars

A faithful adaptation to scripture yet the movies portrayal of the king was terrible. He was presented as as a naive, stupid, irresponsible child that drank too much. This did not give Esther much credability for loving such a silly man.