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11/07/03
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The Gospel of John (2003)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:18
Rotten:30
Average Rating:5/10
Theatrical Release:Sep 26, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $3,862,285
Synopsis: A momentous undertaking involving a creative constituency of award-winning artists and esteemed academic and theological consultants from around the world, Visual Bible's THE GOSPEL OF JOHN is an... [More]
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04/09/04
This depiction of the passion of Christ as interpreted by the Apostle John sorely lacks spirit.
11/13/03
as for the text itself that has the Jews egging Pilate on, well, it is what it is. And that would be less than philo-semetic.
02/15/04
A slick, earnest, ultimately inert adaptation of the eponymous book of the Bible.
11/14/03
A slugglishly painful, uninteresting film that might be of value to New Testament students who don't like to read words unless they come with pictures.
11/07/04
Feels like the longest Sunday school class ever.
01/15/04
Except for a few scenes that evoke the reverent beauty of Renaissance painting, the filmmaking and acting are awfully stiff -- certainly not worthy of the timeless story being told.
11/13/03
All due respect to the Bible, but just because a book is good doesn't mean it can be transferred directly to the screen without some streamlining, adapting and adjusting.
02/07/04
It's a straightforward, unimaginative narrative, and thus not very memorable.
04/02/04
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02/24/04
While it's hard to deny the longstanding inspirational effectiveness of John's message, its value as a screenplay is less obvious.
11/07/03
Despite the filmmakers' efforts to make The Gospel of John into a dramatic feature film, it never quite makes it beyond the lesson stage.
01/15/04
The performances are flat and lifeless (Cusick may look the part, but he has no real charisma), and even Christopher Plummer, as narrator, is less than lively, reading in an all too reverent monotone, suggesting even he's having a hard time staying awake.
02/13/04
Emphasis on maintaining the text 'as is' universally renders the effort into an essentially passionless Bible story
02/15/04
This slavish faithfulness to scripture is death to theatrical standards of drama.
11/25/03
It's like the Discovery Channel version of the Greatest Story Ever Told, an earnest, not particularly distinguished piece of work that has none of the touch of the poet that made Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew such a triumph.
11/13/03
Top CriticEvents unfold as chronological vignettes, and there's little room for screenwriter John Goldsmith to reimagine scenes to mine their full dramatic potential.
04/01/04
Despite claims to the contrary, The Gospel does come off as a three-hour long Sunday School lesson.
03/11/04
The adaptation is not so much tedious as pointless.
11/14/03
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