An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
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Let's be realistic.
Good movie but grossly overrated
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
In my opinion, the idea of the film is great, immortality is always a good idea for any plot in any movie. However, I think the film was too static and the conversation was always about the same topic, which made it interesting for the first 40-50 minutes of the film. The rest was just dragging it, IMO. PS: Edith is so annoying.
When a story keeps things moving and in a minimum use of sets and letting the actors and dialog take over..... top 10 for this guy!
I was intrigued by the bare synopsis and the reviews here. So I watched it and overall I was disappointed in it.First off, it's not science fiction. There was no science in it at all. It had a fantastical premise we are asked to believe just because it might be possible biological gobbledy gook, blah, blah, liver, cells regenerate, yada yada yada. "Blah, blah" and "gobbledy gook" do not science fiction make. The premise of the story was fantasy.But that's fine. Nothing wrong with fantasy. But the story lost me when it began talking about somethings I do know a lot about, and that's Religion, the Bible, Jesus, and Christianity. Suddenly this isn't just a story about a guy claiming to be 14,000 years old. Now this is a movie about a guy claiming to be perhaps the most important figure in all of recorded human history. And guess what? Everything people think they know and believe about him is wrong and the most pivotal figure in the history of Western civilization is only pivotal and important because, Oops! everybody around him got it all wrong! And here you sit with him as he's telling his friends how badly history screwed up his story and how he never intended anyone to start a world religion.What frustrated me the most is, any first year student of apologetics could easily dismantle everything he was saying but this movie didn't give anyone that chance. The only person who was personally affected by his alleged "revelation" could not offer even one rational, historical, or philosophical reply to the truly outrageous claims he was making. THAT was frustrating.Anyway, I don't want to get into all the minutia of apologetics while reviewing a movie. This is a review after all. So in conclusion let me just say, It was an interesting premise and setup but the payoff was sadly lacking. The historical claims of Jesus the Christ are not so easily disposed of and certainly not in the last 25 minutes of an 87 minute movie.
Is that too simple? Maybe. But, this film brings up questions that I've never heard before and discusses possible answers in a medium that normally chooses to titillate rather than stimulate.Kudos to Jenkins and the team for bringing the book to life on the screen. Although shot on a small budget in virtually one location, it is of no import. The story and the way all the actors immersed into the story was the big sell.I heard about the movie on some site, somewhere and was fascinated by the story and the method of distribution. Turns out that pirates made the this movie popular; popular enough to bring some money around to make a second. I have seen both and you'll have to read my review over there for the rest of the story.I want to watch this again in about three months after I have fully digested it.