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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
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Less a celebration than a lively college lecture, with CGI standing in for landscapes, panoramas and a cast of thousands. Full Review |
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The film is an exercise in overblown and overplayed. Full Review |
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a welcome and honorable telling of the Purim story. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
All the production money in the world isn't going to get this magnificent looking biblical clunker past the critics. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
...visually lavish but dramatically clumsy. Full Review |
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1/4 |
Don't Christians deserve quality? Of course...but they won't find it here. Full Review |
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2.2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
Director Michael O. Sajbel can't rein in the story convolutions or the pompous dialogue of Stephan Blinn's script. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Why another version of this oft-filmed tale? Full Review |
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The movie devolves into a talky, static affair featuring a cast with wildly varying accents and acting abilities. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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