Storyline
Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held captive in Nero's darkest and bleakest prison cell. Haunted by the shadows of his past misdeeds, Paul wonders if he's been forgotten as he awaits his grisly execution. Before Paul's death, Luke resolves to write another book that details the birth of what will come to be known as the church.
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James Faulkner, Jim Caviezel, Manuel Cauchi, Christopher Dingli, Noah Huntley, John Lynch, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Olivier Martinez, Joanne Whalley, Mario Opinato, Alexandra Vino, Alessandro Sperduti, Husam Chadat, Yorgos Karamihos, Anthony Edridge, Joe Azzopardi, John-Paul Pace, Erica Muscat, Kenneth Spiteri, Jacob Daniel Groth, Sarah Michelle Attard, Graham Charles, André Agius, Daryl Vassallo, Nora Jolie Eckermann
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Reviews
75
Clearly well timed with Lenten reflections on sacrifice, service, suffering and responsibility. But it offers an equally relevant — and inspiring — portrayal of principled steadfastness and spiritual integrity in the face of a petty, corrupt and tyrannical leader.
75
It’s an impressively staged, well-acted, thoughtful and faithful telling of the last days of the Apostle Paul — and how Luke risked his life again and again to visit his great mentor in prison and make a written record of Paul’s life experiences and teachings.
60
Village Voice
There’s little in Paul, Apostle of Christ that’s not predictable, but the film engages honestly enough with its ideas that at times it feels like a small…well, let’s not use the word miracle in this case. It doesn’t shy away from complexity, and for that we can all be grateful — believers and heathens alike.
50
Hyatt isn’t very good at getting across the urgency of the story, and for all the suggestions of torture (“Another 20 lashes!”) and scenes of prisoners being burned, the picture lacks drama or the tension that an account — based on the New Testament’s “Acts” and Christian tradition — might have had.
50
As movies expressly courting the faith-based audience go, Paul, Apostle Of Christ acquits itself reasonably well from moment to moment, avoiding the howlers that plague such Pure Flix titles as "Samson" and "God’s Not Dead."
