Admirable film.

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

I am so happy a movie like this was made it is what I feel to be the best depiction of this story in movie form that I have ever seen. I can show it to my baby and I know she would pay attention because she get's right into movies and I know this one would capture anyones attention. I have been recommending it to my friends for years since the first time I've seen it. Unfortunately it has been hard to find I've been looking for it so that I can purchase it and no-one seems to know what particular one I am referring to. Now that I have looked it up here I have a better idea of what I'm looking for and what to tell sellers when I am looking for this powerful heartfelt movie about my favorite person of all time.

I enjoyed this film immensely I loved Jesus of Nazareth too, but this Jesus laughs,cries, but most importantly.....HE BLINKS HIS EYES!!!!! Seeing G.W. Bailey as Livio it kept reminding me of the "Police Academy" movies. Gary Oldman's Pilate, was very accurate to the description by Josephus, of Pilate's cruelty. I'm probably going to be offending a lot of catholics here, but the storyline was way too Catholicized for my taste. The baptism for example, John the Baptizer puts a cupped handful of water while Jesus is kneeling in the Jordan "Puddle" on Jesus' head the Greek word for baptize is BAPTIZO which means to IMMERSE in the crucifixion scene it looks like a Jew is doing the nailing, The Romans were the ones who did the nailing. and why could they not use the entire Greek Latin and Hebrew on the Title instead of just INRI?? Jaqueline Bisset I believe is too much of a sex symbol to play the Virgin Mary.

I can't recommend this film simply on the fact that it has one huge self-serving monstrous glaring inaccuracy about its' main character. Jesus was black. Anyone who knows theological history recognizes this as historical fact. the people of those times would be what we call black people in America. Jesus was a brother, and I don't see any brother on the cover of this movie- hence- it is utter trash, a myth and extremely ridiculous in this day of knowledge to continue to perpetuate damaging myths about history that enforce racial oppression. Blacks are supposed to hate their blackness and worship white Jesus. But.. white Jesus.. never existed!

I thought I would like it more. But this long, far too long film left me mostly bored and tired. Even with 2 episodes, it is far too prolonged and doesn't strike some inner nerve, it doesn't move me and never touch me the way it should touch upon every believer's soul. What happened? Do actors play badly? No, the parts of Pontius Pilate, the devil and some of the 12 Apostles are all very good and fresh. The worst parts are the parts (no pun intended) of Jesus Himself and John The Baptist. They seem to be so insipid, so weak and so languid that one may ask - Are these people who ignited so many hearts? If that were a real Jesus, I'd never follow him. I follow Jesus who can ignite and comfort. The long, endless dialogs, some unnecessary additions to the Messiah's words, the ultimately bad Desert Temptation scene are among the worst here, as well as the very bad final sequence. I waited for more... but still, the Jesus film with Brian Deacon is still the best here.