Less a celebration than a lively college lecture, with CGI standing in for landscapes, panoramas and a cast of thousands.
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03/01/07
One Night With The King (2006)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:4
Rotten:21
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Despite its epic source matierial, One Night With the King is held back by dull storytelling and a clumsy script.
Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A visually beautiful film, ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING depicts the biblical tale of a Jewish peasant, Hadassah (Tiffany Dupont), and her journey to become the legendary Queen Esther. Her parents were... [More]
Starring: Tiffany Dupont, John Rhys-Davies, Luke Goss, Tom "Tiny" Lister
Director: Michael O. Sajbel
Reviews for One Night With The King
The film is an exercise in overblown and overplayed.
02/13/07
a welcome and honorable telling of the Purim story.
01/31/07
All the production money in the world isn't going to get this magnificent looking biblical clunker past the critics.
12/26/06
The performances are all solid, although the screenplay frequently bogs down with the complexity of palace intrigues and plots that could have been rendered more consumer-friendly.
10/30/06
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10/28/06
While Dupont is lovely and sweet, the script leaves her motivations largely open and she's not enough of an actress to fill in the blanks.
10/28/06
It’s that slavish refusal to detour from the most conservative possible interpretation of such events that ultimately makes One Night With the King little more than a dolled-up, oversimplified sermon.
10/28/06
...visually lavish but dramatically clumsy.
10/20/06
Don't Christians deserve quality? Of course...but they won't find it here.
10/18/06
This is one of those religious epics that looks like a religious epic, which is fine as far as it goes, but misses the mark because it doesn't manage to translate the feel of the original to the screen.
10/16/06
Director Michael O. Sajbel can't rein in the story convolutions or the pompous dialogue of Stephan Blinn's script.
10/13/06
Why another version of this oft-filmed tale?
10/13/06
Top CriticThe movie devolves into a talky, static affair featuring a cast with wildly varying accents and acting abilities.
10/13/06
Top CriticThe cast is uneven but never amateurish -- Goss may not be much of an actor, but he looks terrific in various states of royal undress; much the same could be said of Yul Brynner -- and the production values are consistently high.
10/13/06
Esther's triumph isn't because of divine intervention. It's her humanity and bravery that make her a legend, and make that One Night worth remembering, 2,500 years later.
10/13/06
Unfortunately [O'Toole and Sharif are] separated by five centuries, and never share a scene. For a movie with the most righteous of intentions, that's perhaps the most grievous moviemaking sins of all.
10/13/06
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