Christmas with the Chosen

I have faithfully watched the Chosen series and was looking so forward to 2hrs of the birth of Jesus! I was waiting on messenger visits, shepherds, Herod.... Basically, I figured it would be a like watching a double episode focused solely around Christ's birth. Instead, it was over an hour of music videos and artist's thoughts. I love worship music....but I went to watch a story. By the time the movie actually started, I was tired, bored, and distracted. Also, the back and forth from BC to AD was confusing to folks who weren't familiar with the whole story/new to learning about Christ. Just not a movie I would recommend.

I came to see a story about the Birth of Jesus, Mary and Joseph's trouble finding a place in Bethlehem, their closeness and trust in God.

Instead I sat through what felt like the longest music video ever.

Be prepared for more than 1hr of music and a brief, significantly brief, representation of the Christmas story.

Don't take me wrong, I love Christmas music as the next Christian, but if you're advertising Christmas with the Chosen, I did not see how these bands and singers were a representation of the Chosen, the project and the series that we have come to love and long for.

I think it would've been better off with a different name, music and the Chosen, or something like that.

Speechless. The manger scene truly hits home if you have a child of your own. Brilliantly acted, brilliant production.

As with everything else involving The Chosen, an absolute masterpiece.

This is not a movie. It's a Christmas special. The first 1:10 minutes are literally Christian artists singing - they are all amazing absolutely, but if you're not prepared to watch music videos for an hour straight this will be hard for you to sit through. The episode itself was honestly hard to watch as my entire family was ready to leave, we could not get all of the music out of our heads. This did not do justice at all to how epic the TV show is.

That this theater presentation is boring as hell. Admittedly I was asked to attend this "movie" and didn't know what I was getting into. Be warned the run time is 2 hours with an hour and 17 minutes of that being a bad music video. I guess I see the appeal if you want to see artists lip-syncing and pretending to play instruments that are not plugged in, followed by a 25 minute episode that shows very little of the birth of Jesus. For me however it was 2 hours I'll never get back.