The "Word made flesh" has now become the Word made visible. In an age of visuals, it might just attract many who would never take the time to read John's gospel.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 25, 2006

...a mild, willfully inoffensive film focusing on Jesus' message of love.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 26, 2004

A slugglishly painful, uninteresting film that might be of value to New Testament students who don't like to read words unless they come with pictures.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 7, 2004

| Original Score: 2/10 | Oct 7, 2004

Whatever this is, it sure isn't cinema. There's no adaptation, no reconfiguration of the material from one medium to another.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2004

It's a straightforward, unimaginative narrative, and thus not very memorable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 2, 2004

The sad truth is that director Philip Saville and writer John Goldsmith have made a picture book rather than a film, one that leans so heavily on Christopher Plummer's placid voice-over narration as to be cinematically inert.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 2, 2004

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 2, 2004

Henry Ian Cusick creates a persuasive Jesus, a savior as happy as often as he is solemn.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2004

An artful, well-made production.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 1, 2004

Events unfold as chronological vignettes, and there's little room for screenwriter John Goldsmith to reimagine scenes to mine their full dramatic potential.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 1, 2004

Despite claims to the contrary, The Gospel does come off as a three-hour long Sunday School lesson.

| Mar 11, 2004

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 24, 2004

Emphasis on maintaining the text 'as is' universally renders the effort into an essentially passionless Bible story

| Original Score: C- | Feb 15, 2004

as for the text itself that has the Jews egging Pilate on, well, it is what it is. And that would be less than philo-semetic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 15, 2004

Turns out to be surprisingly robust.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2004

The performances are flat and lifeless (Cusick may look the part, but he has no real charisma), and even Christopher Plummer, as narrator, is less than lively, reading in an all too reverent monotone, suggesting even he's having a hard time staying awake.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 13, 2004

I found this Gospel long, dull and, for the most part, acted without apparent inspiration.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Feb 13, 2004

Sunday school by way of traffic school.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 13, 2004

Although it might test the patience of the non-believer, for those who take their Christianity seriously, this probably is worth seeing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 12, 2004