The Gospel of John

This film has an authentic feel. The casting of Jesus is the best I've ever seen. The script is the text of John plus nothing. The film is visually simple and realistic. The people actually look Middle Eastern, like the real characters in the Gospel. What a novel idea!

The story is carried by the facial expressions of the actors, since there is a narrator speaking over the actual dialogue. This is not a big budget epic, and it is quite different from other Bible films. If you want to grasp the content of the Gospel of John in a visually gripping way, without all of the typical glamor or director's distortions, This is the film.

• The best Jesus portrail ever.
• Word for word with amazing narrative.
• 99,9 % Accurate, true, beautiful and imaginative film.
• Good overall quality in acting, music and production.
• This is a movie for believers or those who wants to believe.

I read in some other reivew that Peter does not walk on water in this film, thats true. Because that should be in "Gospel of Matthew" instead. It seems it also will become free in many languages for churches and organisations with "Lumo project". Hope it's true.

I love this movie!!!! I have a better understanding now of the life if Jesus!!! I love everything about it and I am praying there are more from this company that I can learn more of the Bible. It was captivating. The acting plus the narration was impeccable!!! We even heard a little Arabic which made it even more astonishing!!!! I found myself watching the whole movie with out a break. I didn't realize that the movie was from the Bible word for word. Nobody has ever done that in a movie. I hope that you will also do the book of Acts and the book of Genesis. Maybe all the books of the bible if possible. I'm so inspired by this movie! I look forward to the next book of the Bible in this same format!!!! Thank you so much!!!! I've watched this movie three times and I am sharing it with other believers! My church will never be the same after they see this movie!!! Christ is the answer!!!! Shalom!!!!

I absolutely love this movie. It is narrated verse by verse from the Gospel of John, beginning to end. I wish there was a movie like this for every book of the Bible. I'd watch them all, over and over.

I've watched/listened (sometimes in the background while doing other things on the computer) this movie probably close to 20 times now. I had my wife watch it a few times, told my friends and relatives about it as well. Everyone who has watched it really liked it.

I tried to watch the King James Version, narrated by Brian Cox (on Netflix). I love his voice and narration, but the Old English language just doesn't sound natural like the New International Version narrated by David Harewood does.

I found this adaptation of The Gospel of John (KJV) was absolutely stunning and accurate to the Word of God. Granted, I was at first taken aback by the actors acting out scenes while a narrator read the Bible word for word from the book of John in the background, but after watching, and reading other reviews on this, I completely understood Lumo's reasoning behind it, if it is truly their reasoning.

The reason I have read is because it makes it easier to put this movies out in multiple languages. Like Thai, German, Swedish, Russian, Spanish (which they already have), and a handful of other languages, and still remain accurate without filming the movie multiple times. The 1979 Jesus movie did this, in a way, when it put the movie out in multiple languages not only in subtitles, but dubbed.

I love that the actors look like the roles they play. This Jesus is one of the most accurate portrayals as he finally looks Jewish rather than European or like someone from GQ magazine. While we do not know what He looked like, we do know He was born a Jew, so to have Him look like a Jew in this movie made it all that more wonderful to watch.

Do not pass this movie up. It is two and a half hours long, but it is the best two and half hours you'll ever spend watching something as accurate and detailed to God's Word. It is probably the most accurate depiction of any Bible movie to date, that didn't take Hollywood license or compromise the truth of the Gospel.