The Young Messiah

oo boring to be anything other than fluff, The Young Messiah has a potentially promising premise, but doesn't do anything with it. We know how it's going to turn out, its protagonist isn't made to be an interesting character, and it's too uneventful to be anything more than an insomnia cure. It's filled with bad-to-mediocre acting, low production values, and a story that simply isn't worth telling.

Great story.

Will moviegoers be inspired to explore mystical, non-canonical add-ons to Scripture after seeing the movie? Maybe. Hopefully, though, they'll pick up the Bible itself. They'll certainly come away with a deeper sense of the context in which Jesus grew up. Namely, a country on the verge of civil war with its brutal occupiers, filled with a Jewish people who are devout and oppressed in equal measure. (pluggedin.com)

A film that starts with a boy dying after slipping in an apple threw by the devil is not to be taken seriously at all.

Expected worse. Much better than The Phantom Menace.