... an infusion of banality. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 18, 2022

It simply doesn't work.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 23, 2020

Overall, Spencer's deeply reflective yet recycled conscious-driven epic seems robotic and compacted. As a faith-healing and feel-good big screen offering, Son Of God deserved much better polish and prose at the center of its pronounced pulpit

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 11, 2018

There is, of course, nothing new, nor an investigation carried out to provide other points of view... [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 2, 2018

The film's low quality, however, is undeniable. The chintzy music over the closing credits, just after Jesus ascends to heaven in a cloud of bundled iMac special effects, is just laughable.

| Feb 1, 2018

It's a great option if you're looking for something with a stronger spiritual foundation than a lot of what is currently in theaters, but it will probably strengthen beliefs more than it will expand them.

| Nov 28, 2017

If you want to watch some really good movies inspired by and about the life of Christ, there are plenty of other options you can go for instead.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 14, 2017

Originally, theater consisted of mystery dramas and church services. Now we have horror, slasher films, and pornography. These do not uplift humanity. But 'Son of God' tries.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2016

Son of God is the simple case of an adaptation that doesn't have anything new or original to add to a tale that has been told many, many times before.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2014

Not that this cobbled-together film is done badly, but it is a choppy, by-the-numbers bland-out.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 30, 2014

A blandly well-intentioned biopic of an ex-carpenter-turned-prophet who caused quite a stir down Jerusalem way some 21 centuries ago.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 23, 2014

The hunk factor aside, it's bizarre that a film presumably conceived as an act of devotion should feel so lacklustre and impersonal.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 21, 2014

If I wasn't watching this in a theatre, I might've presumed I got sent the film on VHS after responding to a late-night infomercial.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 15, 2014

Its roots as a television series are obvious, and it's a long way from the likes of 'Ben-Hur' or 'The Greatest Story Ever Told.' Still, 'Son of God' has a couple of sequences that make it an above-average picture.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 24, 2014

Such a heavy-handed approach drains some of the emotional power from its best sequences, including a vivid and bloody depiction of the Crucifixion.

| Mar 21, 2014

Although nicely shot and capably acted, it mostly feels inert, shackled into moderation and flatness by its fear of offending (and possibly challenging) its core audience.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2014

This abridged gospel has slicker production values than most Sunday school lessons. ... But ultimately Son of God is preaching to the choir.

| Mar 7, 2014

...as good as any film edited together from segments of a History Channel miniseries can be expected to be, which is to say it's utterly terrible.

| Original Score: D | Mar 6, 2014

There is little cinematic about the film. Instead, it is a series of figurative illustrations.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 6, 2014

Aimed at a devotional middle-American audience, this never risks the sort of individual perspective necessary to bring the story to life onscreen, for good or ill.

| Mar 6, 2014