The Gospel of John
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Movie Reviews of The Gospel of John
Movie Review: Gospel of John
Summary: 5 Stars
The Gospel of John presents the story of Jesus as it is narrated in one book of the Bible. The actors provide the dialogue, while narration is read. The goal of the movie was to dramatize scriptural events. The setting of the movie is from the time of John the Baptist to the death of Jesus. It is a time when the Roman Empire controlled Jerusalem. John speaks of Jesus as the one who will come after him being the greater of the two of them. The costumes, and set used in the movie were very convincing of Biblical times.
At the beginning of the movie, John is speaking when Jesus appears. Jesus is portrayed as a calming and welcoming being. John the Baptist tells his followers, "there is the Lamb of God" and Andrew and John immediately follows Jesus. When Jesus turns around and sees them he has a welcoming smile as they shyly ask him where he lives, and follows him. Philip, another disciple, also rushes from a doorway and he is greeted by Jesus' warm and welcoming smile. One of the most moving greetings was that of Jesus and Nathaniel. When Nathaniel asks Jesus how he knew him, he is shocked when Jesus tells him he saw him under the fig tree. In this scene, there is a flashback of Nathaniel under the fig tree.
In another scene when Jesus is speaking to the multitude on the side of the hill he was presented with the challenge of feeding his followers. Jesus is presented with a little boy with five loaves of bread and three fish wrapped in a cloth. Jesus took the bread and fish, prayed over them, they multiplied and Jesus was able to feed everyone. Throughout the movie Jesus performs many miracles such as healing the sick, calming the storm, and turning water into wine.
Watching this movie and thinking about the Bible I found very few things that would cause me to question the validity of the film. If anything I was able to visualize the passages of the Bible as I watched the movie. This movie brought the Bible to life. Throughout this film you see great attention to detail, both visually and in the mission of Jesus. We see the conflict between those who accept Jesus as a loving Son of God and those who are threatened by his message and continually want to persecute him. The Gospel of John depicts the life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his dramatic confrontation with moneychangers in the temple, his teachings, his miracles, death and resurrection. Anyone who is looking for a movie about the life of Jesus will be moved and fulfilled by this film.
Movie Review: The Words of Saint John made alive
Summary: 5 Stars
A word by word depiction of the three year ministry of Jesus of Nazareth based on the gospel of St. John the apostle. The shortest of the four gospels in the New Testament, is the chronicles of the human and very Jewish Yeshua, the carpenter who made the most blasphemous claim ever in the history of the Jewish and Gentile world: of being the promised Messiah promised by Moses.
This film hints at why there is such controversy over Yeshua still ... is the Christ merely a pagan inspired concoction of Roman pagan tales combined with Greek myths used by Rome to divide the Jews with their own religion? Was Yeshua truly the Messiah fortold in the Book of Isiah? Was Yeshua a carpenter from Galillea who was a rebellious rabbi? Did Yeshua really do those miracles and resurrect to trick an uneducated Jewish uderclass? Was Yeshua truly the Messiah for the fruits of his wisdom have become the worldwide religious phenomenon known as Christianity? Was Yeshua even real at all? The film doesn't answer these questions but does leave the viewer with an understanding of New Testament story, historical context of Yeshua, and an understanding of the Jewish context of where Christianity sprang. In the early days after Yeshua died, Jews were divided into beliver and non-believer, and only when Constantine became a Christian was the word "Christian" (Christos is Greek for the annointed one) began and marked the final severance of the Jewish origins of the faith...
Which brings us back to The Gospel of John Film - which is a focus on the words of Yeshua, his teachings, his life, his deeds, and his humanity. Yeshua was a spiritual teacher, no doubt about that, and Messiah or not, real actual person or not, it is the spirit of the message that comes alive in this film's word-by-word adaptation of Saint John's writings.
Trivia: The Three Wise Men (or Magi) were from the East (including Persia) and by some accounts were High Priests of the Ancient Zoroastrian religion (once the official state faith of the Persian Empire) who were also awaiting the birth of a world savior.
.... The most learned of his day rejected him (Caiaphas and Ananias) whilst he who was a mere fisherman (Peter the first Pope) believed in him. Only the pure in heart could see what those whose intellects ruled their spirits could not .....
Movie Review: Powerful & riveting film!
Summary: 5 Stars
What a wonderful movie made about Jesus. This is an extremely powerful and riveting film. It is a word-for-word adaptation of the 21 chapters of the Gospel According to John. Christopher Plummer narrates parts of the film. Henry Ian Cusick is the most realistic Jesus I have seen portrayed on film. My other favorite Jesus performance is by Robert Powell in "Jesus of Nazareth" - a mini-series that first appeared on TV in 1977 and is 382 minutes long. That is also an excellent movie and worth buying on DVD.
The directing, acting and musical score are done extremely well. This is an inspirational movie with a positive message and I highly recommend it to everyone.
I recently bought the 2-disc DVD set of "The Gospel of John". My only complaint about this new 2-disc DVD set is that they got rid of the 3-disc DVD set and replaced it with the 2-disc set. So far, the only difference between the two sets that I can see are that this new 2-disc set dropped the DTS audio track but kept the Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. Also, this new 2-disc set includes a new 2-hour version of the film plus the original 3-hour theatrical version. I have no idea why someone would want to only watch a cut up version of a "word-for-word" movie version of "The Gospel of John". I'm assuming that because they included this chopped up version of the film, they dropped the DTS audio track to make room for this other version of the film. I tried to buy the 3-disc set version of this film but I waited too long. I cannot find it (brand new) even on the film's website. But I'm still glad I bought this 2-disc set - It's a lot less expensive than the 3-disc set was. I haven't finished watching everything on it yet so I hope it has all the extras that the original 3-disc set had. It seems to have most of the extras except the DTS soundtrack.
This movie is HIGHLY recommended for anybody and everybody but especially those who prefer to SEE and HEAR the Gospel of John in a "visual" way in addition to reading and studying the Bible. It's a treasure to keep forever. I think the Gospel of Mark is coming soon to theaters made by the same people that did this movie. I hope they do as good of a job with that movie as they did with this one. My rating: A+
Movie Review: Great movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was quite interesting and was a very entertaining and interesting take on Jesus' life and ministries. It's mostly a summary of Jesus, his teachings, through the eyes and perspective of John. This story being named The Gospel of John summarizes Jesus' life and presents the story of his life through the perspective of a disciple of sorts...and does show many of the most popular and well known stories such as the wedding Jesus and his disciples attended where he turns the water into wine, how he chose his disciples, his frustration with the people and the use of the temple when they were using it as a "marketplace" together with the story of many people in various areas discovering that he was in fact the Messiah that they had waited so long for. The narration was at first strange but helpful with many scenes that needed further interpretation. The movie also notes stories such as the crippled man waiting on his own miracle so he would be able to walk and Jesus healed him. There as a governmental official whose son was dying and Jesus was able to heal him. He was able to prove himself as the Messiah via his miracles he preformed. The story of the loaves and the fishes is one of the most famous stories of Jesus which is also noted in this film. Through the help of God, he was able to provide, and perform miracles so that others could eat and drink without having to go without. All of these miracles were a complete test of faith. The entire movie is very emotional as Jesus is strongly trying to spread his word of love and it's a very interesting story line even for those who are not of the Christian faith. The movie is very easy to follow, and it's definitely authentic as to the teachings that are truly in the bible. The movie shows a very dramatic and attention-grabbing end to Jesus' life, via the crucifixion, and portrays the pain and suffering that he went through in order to act as the Messiah of God, and the earthly proxy to "The Almighty". The resurrection is also the last impression left upon the viewer and the hope that God did in fact allow him to rise again and join him in Heaven.Movie Review: Reasons This Is My Favorite Jesus Movie...
Summary: 5 Stars
Here's a few reasons to get this movie--
1. Artistically, it's believable and well-done (only quibble: John the Baptist was portrayed not just rugged, but with crazy-looking eyes and came off a bit Charlie Manson-esque). In contrast, 'The Gospel of Matthew' also by The Visual Bible, was unbelievably portrayed to the point of distraction. I could not focus on the word for word (NIV) script since the acting did not match the message of the words of the Gospel--for ex, in The G. of Matthew movie, Jesus wouldn't stop smiling--even when the message was sober, say pronouncement of "you are in error," "vipers," woes, or endtimes judgment or a showdown with religious hypocrites--He'd do a smiling, touchy feely shoulder or hand grasp, even kiss a Pharisee, then casually with a smile ( or occasionally choking back tears) quietly and quickly speak the words of rebuke. But in 'The Gospel of John' the actions match the words. No interjection of a suspiciously high amount of endearing gestures, child-cuddling or playfulness that would make the movie incredulous. Nor are there obvious unbiblical, much less occult, influences or biases as there were with The Passion. (Even though Gospel of John is marketed as being in the spirit of The Passion, it is not, it is more biblical, no hints of Catholicism or spiritism.).
2. Substantially, this Jesus film is based on John, the one New Testament gospel book (out of the 4) that so highlights Jesus' deity, includes Jesus outright claim to be Messiah, and strongly assures the believer that salvation is secure and cannot be lost.
3. Personal reason: it worked for me! I bear testimony: When it came out in the movie theatres I was trying to get a deeper hold on John's gospel, so thought that taking in a visual and audio presentation of it might shed new light that reading did not. Sure enough, each of the 5 times I saw it before buying it a new insight came to me. Now, I can't say whether this movie is good for evangelism, as I haven't tried it and it's very long, but it certainly is good for Christian growth, mine anyway.