Last Temptation of Christ

The Bottom Line: Scorsese's Passion Play deserves the audience it never got when it was first released. This is powerful filmmaking and is sure to strike a nerve in believers and non-believers alike.

Review: 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...

The Bottom Line: See it and realize the controversy was all in their minds!

Review: 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 Christ's...

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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 those...

Review: I remember when this movie first came out in 1988. I was living in San Diego at the time, and there was much controversy about this film. We went to the theatres to see it and there was a large crowd outside picketing the showing of this film. There...

The Bottom Line: Sound piece of film making.

Review: 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...

The Bottom Line: An underrated Scorsese film with a different view of Christ.

Review: Note: This is a rewrite of a review I originally posted way back on November 13, 2000. I decided to rewrite it because the original was pretty horrible and because the release of The Passion of the Christ made me remember the controversy this film...

The Bottom Line: Tried watching it a second time after a few weeks and my first impression stood. The novel by Kazantzakis is my recommendation.

Review: 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...

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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, they...

The Bottom Line: A very likable, possible Jesus flick.

Review: "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,...

The Bottom Line: Do you think maybe the point of God coming to Earth was to show that he doesn't offend as easily as his followers would like to believe?

Review: 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,...