O Peregrino

Just learned of the book Pilgrim's Progress last year and searched to find this movie after reading the book.

. Although not exactly like John Bunyans story I liked it. It isn't often one can find a wholesome and Bible focused movie ( yes, I realize this version is 1978, but it's the essence of the story I was looking for...the walk of any Christian with their mistakes and a forgiving Saviour and eventually success).

A question, in the frame in the Interpretors house there is a picture with a man with his back to the world, where Pilgrim asks "what is the meaning of this picture"...I'm wondering, does anyone know the name of the picture and the artist?

Although it was a worthwhile aim to transfer the greatest allegory in the English language to film, this work utterly fails as art because it makes wholesale changes in a book which every student of fine literature should know by heart, and for no good reason. The sets are beautiful and the pace is satisfactory, but making the devil pop up at every turn and ending the movie with him being a "boogey man" rather than one who, as the Bible says, transforms himself into an "angel of light," ruins this seemingly amateur effort at filmography.

Its an old movie, give credit where credit is due. WAY easier than trying to read the Old English. Keep in mind it was written in the 1600s. I tried reading this after several recommendations to no avail. If ya know the Bible at all, you will like all the references, hidden Easter eggs. No big name actors except for Liam Neeson, who plays the Evangelist, so, so young in this. Its almost like watching a play. There is a short introduction, in the beginning explaining the book, the author and the time (era) it was written in. Filmed in Ireland, great landscaping throughout the entire film. Length is just over an hour. Give it a chance.

This movie has been a real life-changer, articulately written and directed amazingly which has contributed all the more to its wonderful script! For those of you who know John Bunyan would truly know the value of this novel he wrote and all the pain he put into beautifully upbraiding the gist of the whole story. Though this movie's just a part of the whole book and left many parts untouched, it has truly proved the point. To those you who really applaud Christian-based epics and so forth, The Pilgrim's Progress would indeed be of a great help in knowing more about the inherent truths about the like to a great depth.

I give it a 10/10 for the script and the performance of all the actors in this wonderful journey!!! Don't MISS IT!!

0/4 BOMB

Not many people know about Liam Neeson's acting debut for the big-screen. I didn't at first either. As a matter of fact, I wasn't engaged enough to realize Neeson was in this garbage until the credits rolled... It was so bad that its just too hard to give this review a nice intro.

The movie is an inept reimagining on John Bunyan's classic of the same name. It chronicles Pilgrim's journey of righteousness. If Pilgrim's Progress (the book) had a plot that could do well on screen, that's one thing. This is another.

The acting was more tedious than any other aspect of this movie. It was as dry as firewood and about as convincing. The cinematography is in dire need of experimentation. Scenes are either shot in the standard 30's style and no imagination. Then it hit me: There was probably only one person in the room passionate about making this film... the poor investor.

I'm not going to go on criticizing every little detail of this movie. It's not that I don't want to, it's that this movie has a profound lack of attention to detail, among its heaping pile of problems. This movie is a true stinker in every sense of the word, and somehow, Neeson made it big time in spite of it.