Barabbas? I thought he goes free? Say, when does this movie take place exactly? When the action moves to a hill outside Jerusalem’s city walls, we realize we’re just around the moment most other JC biopics conclude.Ĭlavius and the apostles fish at night on the Sea of Galilee. Clavius captures and kills a particularly feisty rabble-rouser named Barabbas. Rome is having a rough time with the Judean zealots, their blood constantly aboil in anticipation of their messiah. We meet Joseph Fiennes’s Clavius in battle (well, this low-budget affair’s version of battle – 15 guys in uniform v 15 other guys in robes). It’s not a bad idea, really, to graft the conventions of a police procedural on to a Bible epic, and for about 30 minutes, Risen, from Waterworld director Kevin Reynolds and Sony Pictures’ in-house “faith-based” unit Affirm Films, looks like it’s going to be a winner. Get some results and get them fast – the head of the entire department will be here in a matter of days! Lean on your informants if you have to, just solve this case and solve it now! It’s a scene from a thousand different cop movies, only this time the detective is a Roman tribune, his angry boss is Pontius Pilate, the ticking clock is a visit from Emperor Tiberius and the missing person is Jesus of Nazareth, the risen Christ. A detective is summoned to his chief’s office, where he’s read the riot act.
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