Hello All,
Side Note - Before I start with the review, I am acknowledging that I did indeed not review How to be Single yet. I ran into scheduling conflicts for something like three days in a row and now I’ll have no time in the foreseeable future to get a review done. If I can do it later down the line I will, because why not. And now, back to our regularly scheduled review:
Someone told me that there are three things in life you never talk about: Money, Politics, and Religion. So let me get something out of the way right now - I am religiously neutral. I do not care one way or the other, I figure when I die whatever happens happens, and I try to live my life in a way where I’m only an asshole to people who deserve it (mostly.) I am merely trying to go into this as a movie critic alone, not a religious commentator. I went into this with the mindset of someone who has not heard any stories of the bible and was experiencing all this for the first time. So how did this all strike me? Let’s find out together shall we?
Plot Summary - Clavius is a powerful Roman Centurion, who is charged by Pontius Pilate to investigate the rumours of a risen Jewish messiah. He is at the same time tasked with finding the body of a man named Yeshua in order to quell an uprising.
Pros - Joseph Fiennes does really well as Clavius, a roman soldier who is simply tired and wants to find peace. It also does a really good representation of the era, and it has some really good cinematography around it. The rest of the cast is solid too for the most part, and they even cast Curtis Cliff as Yeshua, probably the most accurate portrayal of Jesus I’ve seen of late in terms of ethnicity. In terms of the story, it simply plays out as a man who sees something he does not quite comprehend, and merely seeks to find answers for his satisfaction. It’s not overly preachy, no one's really a villain as it tries to cast everybody in a fair light.
Cons - The only supporting actor who gets a decent amount of screen time is Tom Felton as Lucius (hah) who works as an aide to Clavius. The film also doesn’t really set up the story that well in the beginning as you really don’t know the main conflict until you literally see it in front of you.
Final Score - 7/10
It’s a good film that I’m glad I saw. If you have no interest in seeing based on the content, there’s not much here that’ll entertain you.
Next: I kind of want to see The Witch more than Race, don’t know when though. I still feel pretty ill and so I might take a day or two to recover.
Until then, I’ll see you folks at the movies.
Gladiator was an, at times, scene for scene remake of the 1964 film The Fall of The Roman Empire. Risen looks to be covering the ground seen in the 1953 Richard Burton classic The Robe.
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