Experience The Visual Bible’s Matthew. This powerful and entertaining film is taken word for word from the text of the New International Version translation. This multi-million dollar production appeals to all ages, and it offers educational, spiritual and entertainment value. “The goal of The Visual Bible is to put the entire Bible on film using only Scripture to tell the story.” Filmed on location in Tunisia, Morocco and South Africa, Matthew features a cast of thousands, historically accurate costuming and award-winning directing. The film stars Emmy award-winning actor Richard Kiley as Matthew, and introduces Bruce Marchiano as Jesus.
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May 19, 2008
#1
The acting in this depiction of the Book of Matthew is not very good.
The actor who portrayed Jesus doesn’t look at all like Jesus.
This film has good intentions and is accurate though.
I also have suspicions that some of this film was dubbed. In the Beauitudes scene, The motions of Jesus’ mouth do not correspond with his speaking.
May 19, 2008
#2
when the DVD arrived I opened it in great anticipation of watching it right away. unfortunately I cannot.. as it is a two disc DVD set and disc one is MISSING. only disc two arrived???? the package was sealed, so now I cannot return this purchase. I am very dissapointed.
May 19, 2008
#3
As much as I would like to recommend this movie, I have to admit it is not one of the best movies of Jesus life. It does follow the text of Matthew’s gospel essentially word for word, which is, at times, a useful tool.
That said, the acting is mediocre. Bruce Marchiano as Jesus is a flop. He just doesn’t pull it off convincingly. I often teach a class where I show people clips from different Jesus movies. Marchiano’s poor acting often evokes laughter in the group.
If you what the best Jesus movie ever done, nothing beats Zeffirelli’s TV mini-series Jesus of Nazareth.
The two other parts to this series, Acts and John, are done very well.
May 20, 2008
#4
If you think it’s going to be as good as the Gospel of John, don’t be surprised when it’s not. I guess it was dumb of me to think that because this one was made like 10 years before John, but I guess I didn’t expect cheesy acting and bad screen writing (Jesus is a smiley white guy). Matthew is a great book, but you can tell budget affected this dvd’s quality. I didn’t even finish it.
May 20, 2008
#5
It’s a beautiful production which needs to be shared. You get a different picture of a very human Jesus. Own this and decided to give this to each of our children/grandchildren as a gift.