Dont waist your money or time, especially if you are a christian. I gave it two stars because the acting was good. HOWEVER....the story line was not only mocking Christ by comparing Him to other Gods but also boring. Dont even get me started on the ending of this movie, about as unreal as it can get. I mean I would give a little credit if their was even anything remotely debatable about the script lines of hugh grant, the heretic. Its basically a phychotic cowardly man posing his unbeliefs on two mormon girls while challenging them in their beliefs. Their was nothing intellegent about this film. And for the sole purpose of truth of their being no comparison..... The resurrected Jesus appeared to over 500 people. In the book of Acts we read the testimony of eyewitnesses:
โThis Jesus God has raised up [to life], of which we are all witnessesโ (Acts 2:32).
โBut Peter and John answered โฆ โFor we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heardโโ (Acts 4:19โ20).
โAnd we are witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed by hanging on a tree. Him God raised up [from the dead] on the third day, and showed Him openly.โ (Acts 10:39โ40).
When Jesus performed His miracles, it was often done in the presence of the crowds. Some passages emphasize that multitudes and entire cities saw the miracles of Jesus (Matthew 15:30,31; 19:1,2; Mark 1:32-34; 6:53-56; Luke 6:17-19).
As film analysisThomas Thorogood states it..."The Deeper Meaning of Heretic, the idea that early Christians borrowed aspects of Jesusโ life from pagan mythology is simply a falsehood. Invented by 19th century spiritualist crackpot Gerald Massey, these claims in his 1883 work The Natural Genesis were never backed up by evidence and arenโt taken seriously by Egyptologists. In short, theyโre just made up.As the script compares Horus to Christ, Horus didnโt have 12 disciples, wasnโt crucified or resurrected three days later, his mother wasnโt a virgin and he wasnโt born on December 25 โ a date in the Roman calendar. In fact, neither was Jesus. December 25 isnโt even mentioned in the Bible. The date later became Christmas Day in the Christian Church calendar around Winter Solstice, the shortest and darkest day of the year, to reflect Christ being born as the light who overcomes the darkness." Again making the film unintelligent. I went in to seeing this movie thinking that there were going to be challenges like an escape room theme based on there faith, only to be dissapointed that most of the film (70%)was centered more on Grant's non-rhotic accent trying to teach and convince to young mormon girls Jesus is no more real than a pagan god.