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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Apr 4, 2002
Pros: Script, Direction, Dafoe, Hershey, Keitel, Score
Cons: Bad mouthed by people who either haven't 1) seen it, or 2) understood it
Summary: Every once in a while I like to watch a good religious movie, you know, one about the life of Jesus Christ. One of the ones I continually recommend is Jesus of Nazareth, a massive 6-hour plus work that does one of the best jobs of depicting ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 17, 2011
Pros: Imaginative; thought provoking; Keitel and Defoe make a great team
Cons: ..stupid people always believe stupid things
Summary: "God is not an Israelite!"the plotJesus is a man plagued by dreams that tell him to get on the path, as well as invisible raven's claws that will dig into his head ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 21, 2009
Pros: Willem Dafore, interesting concept, Scorsese
Cons: Barbara Hershey, slow first half, controversial
Summary: Since the early eighties Martin Scorsese had been trying to get his Jesus Christ epic off the ground based on the Nikos Kazantzakis novel, The Last Temptation of Christ, but financing wasn't exactly coming through due to the controversial nature ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 23, 2009
Pros: Dafoe and Hershey are excellent, compelling script, superbly directed
Cons: Keitel is miscast, the lack of budget hurts certain scenes
Summary: A complex work from a complex filmmaker, Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ took years to get made and then suffered ridicule due to its subject matter. Never mind the fact its attackers hadn't even seen the picture. They didn't have ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 1, 2009
Pros: An unwavering portrayal of the human side of Jesus
Cons: Doubtful it will cause those who deny that side of him to think
Summary: It occurs to me as I write this that I don't ever recall the Jesus of the Gospels so much as implying his own perfection. Christians say God is a triune god consisting of the father, the son, and the holy spirit. Or to put it more succinctly, god, man, ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 8, 2005
Pros: Cinematography, Music
Cons: Story, Script
Summary: LT of Christ has the craft of a master film maker, unfortunately it is a false portrayal of Christ. I wasn't offended by the scene of Christ having the last temptation on the cross and that temptation be a life of marriage to Mary Magdalene. The bible ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 11, 2005
Pros: A masterpiece! Well directed, well acted, well made, well scripted.....the list goes on.
Cons: Holy-rollers might be offended by the strong fictional aspect of the movie
Summary: I have seen several video adaptations of the life of Jesus Christ: "The Greatest Story Ever Told" *yawn*, "The Passion of the Christ" *puke*, even the musical hit "Jesus Christ Superstar". After seeing all of these, I can clearly say that Martin ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 25, 2005
Pros: Dafoe, Keitel, Scorsese, brilliant plot, brilliant score, unbelievably moving and powerful
Cons: I don't have a copy oof my own yet!
Summary: Every now and again, a film you never really ever thought of will come up, slap you in the face, and remind you why you love movies so much. Most of these times you never gave these films a second thought before that, picking them up just out of idle ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 9, 2004
Pros: Dafoe's oddness; desert scene and what comes after; Scorsese's direction.
Cons: What's Judas supposed to be?
Summary: "This has to be the hokiest movie I've ever seen." -My Mom I hate it when art, in its best form, is looked at from a skeptical point of view like my mother's and suddenly labeled "hokey." I can understand, how from a certain point of view, that this ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 7, 2004
Pros: epic film with modern-day themes; inspirational, moving, and visually captivating
Cons: doesn't always capture the realism needed for a historical movie from this particular time period
Summary: Ah...It's good to be back on good ol' Epinions.com. Oh, how I've missed you! With all the hype and hoopla surrounding Mel Gibson's recent adaptation on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, I thought I would take a step back and review one of my all-time ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 20, 2003
Pros: Generally good performances all around, good story concept, costuming
Cons: Beginning will freak out the timid, occasionally stilted dialogue.
Summary: Warning: As this movie is almost impossible to discuss without revealing major plot points, including the ending, many spoilers are ahead. Basically, when you get to the SPOILER WARNING line in this review, if the movie still sounds good and you ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 18, 2003
Pros: Perhaps the best film about Christ ever made
Cons: Not everyone will see it, furthermore, even less people will try to understand
Summary: Good Friday… it probably was called so for a purpose.
I’ve been waiting for an occasion to review this film. Today feels like a perfect day for that. You might have heard about this one - one of my all time favorite movies
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 26, 2002
Pros: Authenticity, direction, score
Cons: It is difficult to make a film such as this
Summary: As a person who has watched many films, I firmly believe that the hardest role to portray is the character of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was a very intricate person and no one knows what his personality traits are. Nor does anyone know what Jesus was ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 10, 2001
Pros: interesting from a spiritual perspective; photography; commentary; Harvey Keitel
Cons: Willem Dafoe; the beating heart; no Mid Eastern accents; boring music mostly
Summary: Taking two controversial films with similar intentions and looking at them side to side seems to be the most helpful way for me to review Martin Scorsese’s 1988 film, The Last Temptation Of Christ. I don’t want to compare his Jesus with other ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 12, 2001
Pros: .......
Cons: .......
Summary:
I was raised a Baptist. Not a holy-roller, Bible thumping type of Baptist, just a regular Baptist. We studied the Bible, including the new and old testaments and although I haven't been a regular church member for many years, I still have ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 30, 2001
Pros: Dafoe's brilliant; score haunts; Scorsese creates a world so real you can smell the blood
Cons: A doubting Jesus may make viewers squirm (but it's all in the name of allegory)
Summary: Jesus Christ as allegory? Turn the Son of Man into the Son of Metaphor? The idea strikes a nerve as deep as the thought of re-telling Gone With the Wind from a slave’s perspective.
You’ve got to admit, Martin Scorsese had a lot of ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 22, 2001
Pros: Excellent direction, great score by Peter Gabriel, great acting
Cons: Tough to get your hands on
Summary: The DVD Version of The Last Temptation of Christ is a must own for any Scorsese fan. Unlike many of Scorsese's other DVDs, this one is packed with extras. The commentary with Scorsese, Dafoe, and Schrader is excellent and very insightful. It gives you ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 28, 2000
Pros: Excellent script with some material to stimulate thinking, Beautiful musical score by Peter Gabriel, Intimate view of Christ, Good ensemble acting, Not overdone with special effects, Historical accuracy for the period
Cons: Not for everyone -- some will object to Christ being used as a metaphor for the human condition.
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The Last Temptation of Christ is the film that Martin Scorsese longed to do for many years. He began putting things in motion in 1983, but when word that Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel was being translated into film got to the Moral Majority, ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 22, 2000
Pros: excellent acting and cinematography
Cons: a little long
Summary: This is my favorite movie of all time. It is a very deep and powerful movie. Every time I watch it I get something new out of it.
I remember all the screams of shock that occurred when the movie came out. The first time I saw it I kept waiting ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 8, 2000
Pros: brilliant direction by Scorsese
Cons: the casting of Hollywood stars
Summary: Now that twelve years have passed, most people have probably forgotten the uproar around Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988). And for those of us who have seen and love the film, the uproar didn't make any sense in the ... read more
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