To honor the subject material of a film like Paul, Apostle of Christ is to focus totally on the message, however specializing in the message quantities to shortchanging the dramatic components of the story. In addition, there’s the controversy that’s ceaselessly attendant at any time when varied teams provide differing interpretations of a spiritual textual content. Then there’s additionally the truth that believers aren’t all the time able to see their religion and its implications onscreen (as in The Last Temptation of Christ), and the truth that non-believers aren’t all the time able to see it both (as in The Passion of the Christ). All of this provides as much as a major problem in making a “Christian movie.”

Paul, Apostle of Christ correctly decides to deal with the message, making certain that it does not less than one factor properly. Which is to say that, broadly talking, the movie is scripturally correct however falls flat as a chunk of leisure and a murals.

It isn’t the fault of the actors that there’s a severe lack of dramatic rigidity. Indeed, Jim Caviezel as Luke, James Faulkner (Game of Thrones) as Paul, and Olivier Martinez (Taking Lives) as Mauritius all put in admirable turns, whereas John Lynch (The Fall) is noteworthy as Aquila.

The solely place the low finances exhibits in Paul, Apostle of Christ is in the truth that a lot of the movie takes place on just a few units, which provides issues a considerably claustrophobic really feel. However, not less than they’re well-built units, and the outside photographs we do see are wonderful as properly. These high-quality manufacturing values give the movie an air of credibility it’d in any other case lack.

The film is basically the story of the writing of the Book of Acts within the New Testament. We see Luke go to Paul whereas the latter is imprisoned in Rome, the place Luke information Paul’s sudden, blinding encounter with God on the street to Damascus and his subsequent conversion to Christianity.

On the one hand, churchgoers will discover Paul, Apostle of Christ respectful and even reverent. They will largely be happy with the doctrine conveyed within the movie and should admire the prospect to see an essential piece of their historical past and sacred textual content on the massive display.

On the opposite hand, there isn’t almost sufficient character growth or battle to attract in non-believers. They will doubtless discover the movie boring and tedious, tuning out earlier than the theological exposition actually will get going.

It is extraordinarily troublesome to fulfill all attainable viewers with a film like Paul, Apostle of Christ. Better to focus on what you’re positive you are able to do properly than attempt to solid a wider internet and fail miserably. And what this movie does properly is painting the lifetime of Paul the Apostle and the historical past of the early Christian church within the speedy wake of Jesus’ loss of life. With tremendous manufacturing values and in a position performers, Christian audiences shall be impressed and moved by Paul, Apostle of Christ.