Dear Lord, why must Your most ardent followers unleash such bad movies in Your name?
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10/13/06
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One Night With The King (2006)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:4
Rotten:21
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Despite its epic source matierial, One Night With the King is held back by dull storytelling and a clumsy script.
Theatrical Release:Oct 13, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $13,391,174
Synopsis: A visually beautiful film, ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING depicts the biblical tale of a Jewish peasant, Hadassah (Tiffany Dupont), and her journey to become the legendary Queen Esther. Her parents were... [More]
Starring: Tiffany Dupont, John Rhys-Davies, Luke Goss, Tom "Tiny" Lister
Director: Michael O. Sajbel
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Reviews for One Night With The King
Don't Christians deserve quality? Of course...but they won't find it here.
10/18/06
Plods across the screen with the thudding portent of an earnest Sunday-school lesson.
10/12/06
The cinematography and sets look great, but the script is a bummer. It's overlong, overwrought and overblown.
10/13/06
Blessed with abundant production values and a minimum of campy excess, One Night With the King is a surprisingly satisfying attempt to revive the Old Hollywood tradition of lavishly appointed Biblical epics aimed at mainstream auds.
10/11/06
Top CriticEsther'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.
10/13/06
The cast is uneven but never amateurish -- Goss may not be much of an actor, but he looks terrific in various states of royal undress; much the same could be said of Yul Brynner -- and the production values are consistently high.
10/13/06
A tighter script could have made this a classic Bible epic.
10/13/06
Why another version of this oft-filmed tale?
10/13/06
Director Michael O. Sajbel can't rein in the story convolutions or the pompous dialogue of Stephan Blinn's script.
10/13/06
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.
10/13/06
Top CriticDistinctly made-for-TV vibe [despite] visual spectacle and a distinguished supporting cast.
10/13/06
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10/28/06
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.
10/28/06
The film is an exercise in overblown and overplayed.
02/13/07
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.
10/13/06
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.
10/16/06
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