The Young Messiah

I just watched this movie. So beautiful and so sweet. It should be getting straight 10's all across the board. I am a Traditional Catholic and I was not "offended" like some of you pretend to be. This was a sweet story that tried to give us an idea of what Jesus' life might have been like as a child. The music was so wonderful. I loved this film. So well done and the actors were perfect for the roles they played. I recommend this to EVERYONE. Maybe you'll learn something about humility. I could see this movie many times, just happens to be Christmas time that I was able to see it and I couldn't have planned it better. Please see this movie, it is so wonderful!!!

This movie was fascinating. Too often, as Christians, we feel like it is wrong to imagine what Jesus was like before the Bible and history books mention him. Non-Christians sometimes equate Jesus conflict and any discussion or mention of the name is discouraged. This movie did a beautiful job of making such an interesting topic approachable. Jesus was a baby, a kid, and a teenager, like all of us. It is good the ask questions. While this movie takes creative license with details about Jesus (because nobody was actually there- nobody knows,) it still serves to provoke thought and imagination. This movie is interesting and entertaining, whether you are a Cheistian or not. It is not a documentary, and there are definitely things that were added and omitted this is for entertainment, not to convince people of anything. If you are looking for absolute historic, Biblical and ethnic accuracy, then please explore this topic through other avenues. The setting is breathtaking, and this is overall a very beautiful film.

This movie is nonsense and so unscriptural. Combining all conflicting narratives from Scriptures and the quran into a movie. Mary age when she was betrothed to Joseph was never given and she was definitely not a young girl but a full grown woman already. Mary would not even be speaking to a young Jesus like that like He do not know who He really was when for a fact from Scriptures we read that from the age of 12 He was already going about His Father's (God) business. Jesus never performed a miracle until after his baptism of water and of the Holy Spirit. His first ever miracle was turning water to wine at the wedding in Cana, it was never turning a clay to a bird. I do not understand why it is so easy for these people to play with Christian beliefs and trying so hard to chamge the narrative. Only a person who has no knowledge of the Scriptures would fall for this cinematic heresy. So disappointing!

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The movie is very unscriptural. Why would they go to the Passover with a Seven year old child. How could he perform miracles before receiving the Holy Spirit. This could and mostly can lead to most christians believing the wrong thing. I advice any serious christian not to watch it

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The film is not biblical in any way it is just fiction. My own idea is that Jesus already knew his message since he was born cause he wasn't just a little human boy he was the logos the incarnate Word of God. But it is good in being creative.

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.

The movie had a great interaction between the cast. A developing story line and entertaining characters. Almost every and any Christian could find fault with historical facts/figures presented as part of typical nitpicking. Based upon our exposure and experience to not only the bible but other historical sources. Thankfully the story was not about historical accuracy but about a young Jesus, and a very good story at that. It is based upon the creative hypothetical. What would it be like to be Jesus growing up? Concentrating on a short span of time but including Jesus's trip to Jerusalem for Passover when he is just 7 years of age. I found it thoughtful, illuminating and satisfying. I am sure many will too. Go see it ye Christian soldiers.

So, a movie about a boy who is learning to use his superpowers as he grows into a man that will be able to save thousands of innocent people in a single bound. You might think I'm talking about Superman. I'm actually talking about "Young Messiah." There's probably not a more difficult subject to undertake than a film about Jesus that doesn't rewrite scripture. So when writing about his boyhood, which occupies a mere 12 versus of the Bible, it compounds the difficulty of this task by a hundredfold. I mean, how do you represent a child who does no wrong? Who is completely perfect? What would that even look like? God only knows! But because of the high degree of difficulty it must have taken, I give the makers of this movie huge credit for the way they were able to pull off this picture. The characters were well cast, the dialogue was sharp, there were action scenes that were well-developed and the violence of Crucifixions and necessary bawdiness of a depraved king's court went far enough to tell the story but not become a distraction. This movie must be seen to be appreciated. There are some scenes that are particularly moving: the blind teacher in the temple, the threats of Satan and the village Rabbi stand out. Many of them have to do with the way the boy Jesus interacts with his elders. I was moved to tears of appreciation in several spots. Like any epic story, it enriches the experience to be immersed in the subject matter.A familiarity with the Bible and the foreshadowing of events to come just makes it better. One big draw to the casting was the child actor who played Jesus. He was confident yet respectful and kind. He portrayed the boy Jesus well. There was an appeal, I felt, to the fact that he and many of the cast spoke with a British accent. I've read a review or two that said that knowing that Jesus will live to adulthood spoils the tension. OK, when you watched Avengers or Star Wars or any such epic tale did you really think any of the main characters would die? Did that take the mystery out of the movie? Of course not! The same is true here. The antagonist form of Satan is perfectly scary. King Herrod's commands to the centurion make it seem like Jesus could be found and killed at any moment. The movie was excellent but there were small distractions resulting from rushed filming and places where I thought that scenes and dialogue could have been better developed. These are limited and I will let you decide for yourself where they might be. Still, I give this movie a solid 9 stars and I listed it as 10 here because it got such mixed reviews but it deserves better. Go see Young Messiah. It is a great movie experience not to be missed!