Written by Fumo Verde
A quick summary of this Spaghetti Resurrection: Jesus dies, the day turns to night, and the Earth rumbles for the Son of God is dead. This disturbs the Roman Emperor and he sends one of his most loyal generals to find out if Jesus of Nazareth had anything to do with it. In doing this the general finds “the Way” as he sends reports back to the Emperor, and if it wasn’t for the Emperor’s power-hungry nephew Claudius, the world would have been different.
Wow, even the Christies will have a problem with this one. This story is harder to swallow than the Bible itself, but not by much. The claim to fame of this movie isn’t Jesus, but Dolph Lundgren. He may have had top billing, but this guy had twenty lines if that, and they were all kept to six-word sentences. Daniele Liotti plays General Tito Valerio Tauro, of which Lundgren is his captured Barbarian fighting slave Brixos (he is versatile) with Monica Cruz as Tabitha and Hristo Shopov as Pilate. About the acting, let me put it this way, at first I blamed it on the weed I was smoking. Then I watched this thing sober and it got worse. Max Von Sydow who plays Emperor Tiberius Augustus Caesar seemed like he phoned it in. It had that “bad dub” feel to it though it wasn’t, but maybe it should have been. Even Milli Vanilli wouldn’t have danced to the words put down in this script.
We begin with some tricky camera work going over mountains, probably someone holding a camera out the window of a fast moving Yugo or Rav4. In an instant, we are focused on Jesus. It must have been at the exact moment of death but we aren’t watching long enough to find out, I guess director Giulio Base thought Gibson took all the fun out of that. As Jesus dies, the earth quakes and the sky darkens, suddenly the camera jets over the water to the island of Capri where Emperor Tiberius is shaken from his nap, and this is the whole reason for this movie. At the same time, a young woman in Palestine searches for her mother asking why the day has turned to night as her mud and wood house rumbles under what I consider plate tectonics.
Article comments
1 - Paul elenis
Who ever wrote the previous comment is not desrespecting Christains calling them cristies, he is desrespecting People. Human rights are not just to talk about and send people to Irq for wars but Human and Civil rights freedom and democracy are in our life every day and of them is Religion . SO please respect it.
2 - Eric
I was looking and hoping for an informative review of a movie that I knew little of. Unfortunately, this reviewer has little to offer to anyone searching for any depth or insight into movie entertainment. I would suggest looking elsewhere for an objective review of any movie with more depth potential than "Fast Times at Ridgemont High".
3 - El Bicho
Eric, sorry to hear about life not living up to your expectations. No doubt it isn't the first time. btw, is it tough to sit at the computer with that stick up your ass?
4 - the moviegoer
the masked movie snob might be a little rough but he goes straight to the heart of this less than serious spaghetti religious movie. I actually think he was even too of respectful towards this let's call it production. A movie to forget of.
5 - Jordan Richardson
A movie to forget of.
Now there's the line I've been looking for!
6 - King Chupacabra
That's a review? The "reviewer" seems to think it's "trendy" and "cool" to be a Christian hater and that's exactly what he does to "win the crowd". What a joke.