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To: Brumar89 who wrote (49297)	3/11/2014 11:38:30 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Cosmos.... to be fair, the film "Son of God" fared no better, perhaps that "dumbing down" of America has something to do with 50yrs of right wing bozo-branded fundamentalism? The film got "splatted" pretty good across the boards on Rotten Tomatoes, read away: rottentomatoes.com The film goes wild with helicopter shots of Jesus and his followers traveling through the hills. Who knew Christ was lord of the rings? The target evangelical audience may well respond enthusiastically, but, unless your own salvation is riding on it, the film is mostly a slog. The Gospels have as many movies as Marvel in 2014, so we can only hope for an Avengers-style Biblical alliance next. That kind of camp would be a lot more captivating than this cheap and fawning reiteration of the Western world's most familiar story. Diogo Morgado, the Portuguese actor in the lead (yes, another Euro-Jesus) has been directed to a performance that resembles little more than a kind of strange, smug hippie, the blissed-out organic market employee talking down to you about hemp milk. They have turned the Christ saga into cheese. As in cheesy. A genuinely bland and forgettable picture... about as middle-of-the-road as a movie can be. 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. ...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. By playing it so safely reverential, Son of God tends to plod its way to Calvary, begging to be discussed among Bible study groups and positively name-checked in the Sunday sermons. The film is willing. But its spirit is weak.