Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 21
Despite its epic source matierial, One Night With the King is held back by dull storytelling and a clumsy script.
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 7
Despite its epic source matierial, One Night With the King is held back by dull storytelling and a clumsy script.
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When a beautiful young slave girl learns that her people are about to fall victim to a horrible act of genocide, she will be forced to choose between realizing her wildest dreams or stepping into the pages of history to embrace her destiny in an epic tale of one young girl who rises from peasant to princess to claim the heart of a king. Esther was born an exquisite beauty, but her people have been enslaved by the most powerful kingdom on the planet and her parents executed before she ever had a
Oct 13, 2006 Wide
Jan 30, 2007
$13.4M
Gener8Xion Entertainment
All Critics (28) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (23) | DVD (4)
Why another version of this oft-filmed tale?
The movie devolves into a talky, static affair featuring a cast with wildly varying accents and acting abilities.
Esther's triumph isn't because of divine intervention. It's her humanity and bravery that make her a legend, and make that One Night worth remembering, 2,500 years later.
Unfortunately [O'Toole and Sharif are] separated by five centuries, and never share a scene. For a movie with the most righteous of intentions, that's perhaps the most grievous moviemaking sins of all.
The cinematography and sets look great, but the script is a bummer. It's overlong, overwrought and overblown.
In itself, it's a riveting story. Unfortunately, director Michael Sajbel has envisioned an overwrought Lifetime movie of the week, complete with an Esther who could be a cast member of Laguna Beach and a king notable only for his washboard abs.
Brave heroine risks it all in biblical epic.
There's plenty of intrigue in this film, but it's muddled. Apparently the Bible isn't the best source for Hollywood anymore.
Less a celebration than a lively college lecture, with CGI standing in for landscapes, panoramas and a cast of thousands.
The film is an exercise in overblown and overplayed.
a welcome and honorable telling of the Purim story.
All the production money in the world isn't going to get this magnificent looking biblical clunker past the critics.
The performances are all solid, although the screenplay frequently bogs down with the complexity of palace intrigues and plots that could have been rendered more consumer-friendly.
It's that slavish refusal to detour from the most conservative possible interpretation of such events that ultimately makes One Night With the King little more than a dolled-up, oversimplified sermon.
While Dupont is lovely and sweet, the script leaves her motivations largely open and she's not enough of an actress to fill in the blanks.
...visually lavish but dramatically clumsy.
Don't Christians deserve quality? Of course...but they won't find it here.
This is one of those religious epics that looks like a religious epic, which is fine as far as it goes, but misses the mark because it doesn't manage to translate the feel of the original to the screen.
Director Michael O. Sajbel can't rein in the story convolutions or the pompous dialogue of Stephan Blinn's script.
The film generally adheres to the main plot of the Biblical narrative. However, the film adds stylistic elements not present in the Biblical story. The Jewish narrative of the relationship between Esther (Tiffany Dupont) and Ahasuerus (treated as Xerxes I of Persia in this, as in many adaptations) was not a love story,
December 13, 2009
Super Reviewer
This was an Outstanding Movie, If you have traveled Western Europe or The Middle east, the scenes were so real, colors excellent, The Costumes were unbeleivable. This was a great movie, Do yourself a big favor get it, thank You Fox Family Video
March 4, 2008Super Reviewer
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