The Young Messiah
2016, History/Drama, 1h 51m
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Cleopas
Miriam
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The Young Messiah takes a different approach by focusing on a specific point in Jesus's childhood. But the faith-based film drags, and is mostly unremarkable.
August 2, 2016 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… -
The Young Messiah struggles to hold its audience's attention.
March 14, 2016 | Rating: C- | Full Review… -
"The Young Messiah" performs no miracles.
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We know how the story ends, so there's little in the way of tension.
March 12, 2016 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… -
This uninspiring, borderline inept spiritual drama about the Son of God's formative years preaches to the choir.
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This pious drama is a work of minimal imagination and even less subtlety.
March 11, 2016 | Full Review…
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Sep 13, 2016Based on an Anne Rice novel, The Young Messiah is an apocryphal story about Jesus Christ as a child. Set after the death of King Herod the Great, Joseph and Mary decide to end their exile in Egypt and move back to Nazareth while also grappling with what to tell Jesus as he starts questioning who he is and his abilities. Most of the film seems inspired by non-canonical Christian scriptures, which present some interesting questions but don't have a lot to say spiritually. Nevertheless, it's an interesting story and the production values are really good. Also, the use of fresh unknown actors helps with the authentic period feel. The Young Messiah isn't bad film really, but it undercuts its relevance by going outside of traditional Christian mythology.Dann M Super Reviewer
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Mar 07, 2016Standard speculative conjecture about what might've happened in the life of Christ when he was only a wee one, delivered in that mock seriousness these types of films revel in. Ho-hum. Still, better than Risen was. Already waiting for Mel Gibson's follow-up to Passion of The Christ.Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
The Young Messiah Quotes
| Cleopas: | "I hate hiding in caves!" |
| Cleopas: | I hate hiding in caves! |
| Joseph: | Your questions are the questions of a child and your answers are for a man. |
| Joseph: |
| Jesus: | You don't know the answers, do you? You don't know what's going to happen! (to Satan) |
| Jesus: | You don't know the answers, do you? You don't know what's going to happen! |
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| Joseph: | How do we explain God to His own son? |
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