Christmas with the Chosen

Some very nice Christmas musical selections, traditional, modern and original. The extra narratives provided some interesting information.

I love the Chosen series. I was looking forward to seeing a new episode on the big screen. Instead I saw a thrown together 30 or so minute clip of bad acting, poorly written dialogue, surrounded in insincere testimony of actors reading off a prompter. It is unfortunate that those who have not seen the series will likely steer away from it after seeing this. I felt as if it was a cash grab. They could have made one of their best episodes surrounding the birth, and really dropped the ball. No one is as saddened by this, as I.

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.

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.

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.