Son of God
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Jesus Christ is the son of God. That’s what “Son of God” aims to convey to audiences everywhere. Its goal is to tell the story of the famous, consistently debated, essential historical figure.
“Son of God” opens with a sequence of brief glimpses of the stories in the Bible up until the time that Jesus started his ministry. The scenes are intriguing and perfectly placed so that it gives audiences a taste for what will in happen in the rest of the movie. Part of its splendor is that it is encompassed by the narration of John, a disciple of Jesus, who gives a new perspective by showing the story through his own eyes.
The film follows the travels of Jesus beginning as an adult to his death and resurrection. It includes his encounters with people, including the disciples that follow him, the Pharisees and the recipients of his teachings and miracles. It includes many of the major moments, including Jesus’ feeding of 5,000 people from two pieces of fish and five loaves of bread and the healing of the paralyzed man. “Son of God” also contains many of the parables told by Jesus in the Bible.
The scoring for the movie is beautiful, emotionally evocative and always as playing perfectly to the context of the accompanying scene. The acting is also decent. Diogo Morgado8 does well at playing Jesus, though he does not live up to the standard set by Jim Caviezel in “The Passion of the Christ.” Most of the disciples fill their roles well, including Sebastian Knapp as John and Darwin Shaw as Peter.
As a stand-alone movie, “Son of God” is decent and does well at portraying the historical context played out in the Bible. It gets the point across that Jesus died and rose again to save the world of its sins. However, though it may be on the upper echelon of the Christian movie genre, it leans toward a mediocre standard of drama in film.
The original story of Jesus brought about huge historical change, but the movie “Son of God” won’t do much other than become another Christian movie sitting on a shelf.
— Jeremy Wile
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