Why another version of this oft-filmed tale?
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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
Top CriticThe 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.
10/30/06
Dear Lord, why must Your most ardent followers unleash such bad movies in Your name?
10/13/06
A tighter script could have made this a classic Bible epic.
10/13/06
All the production money in the world isn't going to get this magnificent looking biblical clunker past the critics.
12/26/06
Don't Christians deserve quality? Of course...but they won't find it here.
10/18/06
The film is an exercise in overblown and overplayed.
02/13/07
Plods across the screen with the thudding portent of an earnest Sunday-school lesson.
10/12/06
Distinctly made-for-TV vibe [despite] visual spectacle and a distinguished supporting cast.
10/13/06
The movie devolves into a talky, static affair featuring a cast with wildly varying accents and acting abilities.
10/13/06
Top Critic...visually lavish but dramatically clumsy.
10/20/06
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 CriticLess a celebration than a lively college lecture, with CGI standing in for landscapes, panoramas and a cast of thousands.
03/01/07
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
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.
10/28/06
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
Director Michael O. Sajbel can't rein in the story convolutions or the pompous dialogue of Stephan Blinn's script.
10/13/06
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.
10/13/06
The cinematography and sets look great, but the script is a bummer. It's overlong, overwrought and overblown.
10/13/06
Top CriticWhile 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
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