The Young Messiah (2016)

You won't be disappointed!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

This movie was stunning and very well done! The story is completely original, the visuals are beautiful and the performances are put together in a unique way. I thought the kid who played young Jesus was great! I have read the original source material by Anne Rice before and I thought they did excellent with the same formula. As a christian, this movie is a one of a kind viewing. Great job! 9/10

This film was awesome I loved it. Spoiler alert, it's good

To be honest with you, Jesus looks in this movie as a young girl which is pro-fanatic vision of himself as a Messiah of the human race. I do not think that it needs more comment than that the previous movie titled A child Called Jesus, lead the young actor who played a young Jesus, to play in the future in the movie related to two homosexual gays titled "Barocco" and to finally leave acting forever. This movie to me is just another disaster and the never ending story of the man who died 2000 years ago, leaving us alone, should be forgotten. Why to show Jesus as this child. Show him as the child that is handicapped on the wheelchair, maybe as a blind child. There are so many of them who need help. And then where is the Jesus for them to to help them? It is another fairy tale that makes a total mess up in the mind of a growing up child that plays this role.

How to make a period piece about Jesus. Jewish males have absurdly black beards and are all cock-sure in their self-righteousness. All the priests are Downton Abbey arrogant. Evil characters are dissolute or ludicrously effeminate. Roman soldiers are craggy tough guys with a five-day stubble, but open to the truth.When you have precisely zero historical information to go on, you make things up. Just as early map makers put imaginary lands in the blank places, people made up stories to fill in the long gap in Jesus' narrative. This film incorporates a couple of items from early pseudo-Gospels. The film opens with a seriously unsavory episode of Jesus being bullied. Jesus is a picture-perfect child with long wavy hair and a veddy British accent. The bully trips and falls and is killed, and Jesus is blamed, but brings him back to life again. The family decides it's time to leave their exile in Egypt and go home, and encounter a succession of vignettes to show just what a bad neighborhood Galilee was back then.The film gets better once it develops a focus. Like the far better "Risen," the film becomes something of a procedural. Herod junior has heard rumors of a wonder-working child and dispatches centurion Severus to find him. They got a good actor (Sean Bean) to play Severus, but Herod is a whiny, superstitious wimp. Severus and his troops clomp around Galilee, finally learn that Jesus and his family are on the way to the Temple (No, not the same visit as recorded in the gospels - Jesus is eight in the movie, not twelve). Jesus talks to a blind priest and in the process cures him. Severus sees this, realizes he's up against something beyond him, and lets the family go. He returns to Herod and reports that he killed the child (i.e., lies), pointing out that it was Herod's order.The other intertwined plot is that Jesus is just beginning to become aware that he's special, and Joseph stubbornly refuses to answer his questions. So Jesus looks first to the rabbi in Nazareth, then prods his family to take him to Jerusalem. Jesus is a typical eight year old, if you know any eight year olds who look 14, and have the theological knowledge of a rabbi and the diction and vocabulary of an English Lit professor. Did Jesus ever fall and skin his knee? Did he ever bang his thumb with a hammer, cut himself, measure something wrong or split a piece of wood in the carpenter shop? Because any sign that Jesus was ever less than omnipotent and omniscient is bound to rattle some people.