The "Word made flesh" has now become the Word made visible. In an age of visuals, it might just attract many who would never take the time to read John's gospel.
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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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Reviews for The Gospel of John
...a mild, willfully inoffensive film focusing on Jesus' message of love.
12/26/04
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
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10/07/04
Whatever this is, it sure isn't cinema. There's no adaptation, no reconfiguration of the material from one medium to another.
04/16/04
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04/09/04
It's a straightforward, unimaginative narrative, and thus not very memorable.
04/02/04
The sad truth is that director Philip Saville and writer John Goldsmith have made a picture book rather than a film, one that leans so heavily on Christopher Plummer's placid voice-over narration as to be cinematically inert.
04/02/04
Top CriticHenry Ian Cusick creates a persuasive Jesus, a savior as happy as often as he is solemn.
04/02/04
An artful, well-made production.
04/01/04
Events 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
Top CriticDespite claims to the contrary, The Gospel does come off as a three-hour long Sunday School lesson.
03/11/04
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02/24/04
Emphasis on maintaining the text 'as is' universally renders the effort into an essentially passionless Bible story
02/15/04
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
Turns out to be surprisingly robust.
02/13/04
Top CriticThe 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
I found this Gospel long, dull and, for the most part, acted without apparent inspiration.
02/13/04
Top CriticSunday school by way of traffic school.
02/13/04
Although it might test the patience of the non-believer, for those who take their Christianity seriously, this probably is worth seeing.
02/12/04
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