Genesis

I can praise the cleanness of the cameras, the good selection of settings and the general dialog, but otherwise the film falls apart.

While I get the film wanted to distinguish itself from other biblical adaptations, the execution was disastrous. The point the movie wants to get across was not clear at all, while the various plot points of the book of Genesis were shown in a messy way that they fail to convey any consistent message through them. The staging is also poor, as it shows Noah floating on water as opposed to being in the Ark, which makes everything look confusing, or Joseph doesn't change at all when he meets his brothers again.

The fashion/costuming is not good in this movie, since it includes buttoned shirts when they appeared after Christ and pants don't look very sensical for that age, even if pants did exist in Ancient Ages. There are some characters with looks that fit 21th century more, like Adam having a perfectly trimmed beard or young Jacob having a modern classic haircut and a perfect shave.

The acting was not the worst thing ever, but I had some problems with Venus not having too much credibility as the mother of Moses due to the lack of chemistry with the baby, while Avery Merrifield looks weird in a bad way when portraying Adam, although his acting improves when Eve enters the scene and his sadness for Abel's death is decently impacting. The dialog was generally alright, but the emotions weren't conveyed too well in the delivery.

It tried to be artistic and have an identity, but the message gets lost and the film looks pointless in the end. You can see potential, but this adaptation was not very effective.

No character development. No original text. Some attempt at a poetic narrative rewrite. We didn't make it even 10 minutes.

I think the woman at the beginning was Hagar, but why? You're telling the genesis story from a victim's perspective. Gross.

The plot dragged and did not have any context or explanation. It was entirely disjointed and you have to infer where and who people are. Someone unfamiliar with the Bible would be lost entirely. We turned it off and got The Bible series from Amazon instead.

I don't doubt that there was effort and expense in making this movie, but the oversight of a good script was just too much to tolerate.

Didn't make it past the first 10 minutes, and that's more than fair.

Within those 10 minutes there was no goal stated and no obstacle to overcome. Random unnamed characters were occasionally named after confused acting scenes (and I truly doubt we will see named persons again, they were possibly there for some sense of story establishment). ALL the scenes were confusing.

Female narrator leads the story of Genesis. She is unnamed, don't know who she is, and can't be identified by her character actions/ words/ or those interacting with her, yet she seems to be central to the story--no idea who she is, or even if she is a protagonist, an antagonist, a main character, or if she will stay with us.

I've seen a lot of biblical movies. Some great, some, good, some bad and some worse. This is by far the worse I've ever seen. If I could, I wouldn't give a star at all.

Don't know if it's best to cry or to rofl over it. Either way seems fit.

Calling it a poetic look of man's beginning relationship with God is very, very generous.

At its best one could call it a muddled and confusing philosophic approach to Jochebed's try to recount Moses' background, that has totally nothing to do with the description the bible gives us.

The movie seems to be written and produced by people who don't know anything about the bible, which contradicts the bio of the director/writer.

The impressions given of the history written in Genesis, are distorted and even somtimes misleading. The only right thing is the existing of Eden, Adam and Eve, Caïn and Able, Abraham, Isaäk, Jakob, Jozef, the people around them and some cold facts. But that little wouldn't make a movie.

Besides the enormous flaws in storytelling, the props and cloths missed the setting of Genesis by several millenia. Even the choosen locations were in almost all cases/scenes wrong.

This movie should come with a double warning: One for those who believe and one for those who don't.

I absolutely love this move but was disappointed you did not continue on with more books from the bible. You explained the narrative of genesis in a way even a young viewer can understand. It would be wonderful to see you produce these in order of the Bible. The movie did such an amazing job of bringing everything to life, while the narration helps to fill in the smaller sections. I have watched many movies about the gospels since and have been very disappointed. I was even more surprised to see this was made and produced in Austin Texas. I would love to see another filmed here in Austin. Wonderful.