Joseph Fiennes as Clavius carries this film and out-acts just about everyone, with the exception of Peter Firth who does a pretty good Pilate. (thought not quite as good as Hristo Shopov in 'The Passion')
I could not help compare this to Mel Gibsons excellent Passion of The Christ and although a good movie 'Risen' doesn't quite get there in my opinion.
In parts the movie is pretty accurate, showing the Pharasees and other religious leaders for the hypocrites that Jesus had said they were.
Some of the inaccuracies are unnecessary. According to the Bible, Jesus was already dead when they came to break his legs and was speared just to make sure he was dead and not as a mercy killing as shown in the film.
It was a shame they included the Shroud image in the tomb as this is seriously disputed as authentic and may even be a deliberate middle ages fraud.
The worse part for me was how Jesus followers were shown as hippy like bordering on mad at times (especially Bartholomew. None of them seemed in the least like men who had followed Jesus for three years.
Cliff Curtis is not too bad as Yeshua (Jesus) but it is a hard role for anyone to try to please everyone. At least he was not portrayed as a skinny weak Caucasian as he so often is in these type of films.
The film is at times unnecessary show and drawn out such as the disciples journey to the Sea of Galilee, but over all it is an enjoyable movie without too many of the modern Church doctrine bias we see in so many of these movies. In fact one of the best parts is when they get to the Sea of Galilee and meet the resurrected Jesus. This was all very well done and the movies conclusion is also very good.
I could not help compare this to Mel Gibsons excellent Passion of The Christ and although a good movie 'Risen' doesn't quite get there in my opinion.
In parts the movie is pretty accurate, showing the Pharasees and other religious leaders for the hypocrites that Jesus had said they were.
Some of the inaccuracies are unnecessary. According to the Bible, Jesus was already dead when they came to break his legs and was speared just to make sure he was dead and not as a mercy killing as shown in the film.
It was a shame they included the Shroud image in the tomb as this is seriously disputed as authentic and may even be a deliberate middle ages fraud.
The worse part for me was how Jesus followers were shown as hippy like bordering on mad at times (especially Bartholomew. None of them seemed in the least like men who had followed Jesus for three years.
Cliff Curtis is not too bad as Yeshua (Jesus) but it is a hard role for anyone to try to please everyone. At least he was not portrayed as a skinny weak Caucasian as he so often is in these type of films.
The film is at times unnecessary show and drawn out such as the disciples journey to the Sea of Galilee, but over all it is an enjoyable movie without too many of the modern Church doctrine bias we see in so many of these movies. In fact one of the best parts is when they get to the Sea of Galilee and meet the resurrected Jesus. This was all very well done and the movies conclusion is also very good.