• Warning: Spoilers
    ... in the Addams Family. She was so fantastic as Wednesday that I was conditioned to expect greatness from her. However, I now believe she's just not capable of playing any character who doesn't deliver every line in a deadpan monotone.

    This was not supposed to be one of those types of characters.

    The whole movie just had this cornball 60's/70's type feel to it. Overly dramatic lines & action for no good reason, hysterical female running amok, chase scenes where nobody says anything, vague generic "bad guy," bad zoom ins and ECU, and the scoring was just so dated it was distracting.

    It was oddly short too at 86 minutes, apparently 10min were cut for some odd reason, as it certainly wasn't for length!

    Spoilers below...

    Why the hell are all the people who were supposedly around in Jesus's time, in a desert climate, depicted as all WHITE?!!? JFC, it's the 21st century. We know better, DO BETTER.

    Ricci says she was a little girl when she witnessed that, yet now she's mid 20's? That was middle age+ back then. What was a young girl to do against Roman soldiers, honestly?

    They did crucifixions, stonings, etc in public so that people WOULD watch. Such things were even advocated for IN THE BIBLE for perceived sins. Somehow Jesus, who was sent to die, is different?

    In 2000 years, none of those "Watchers" thought to try to stop any of the horrifying things they saw? They must have been evil for other reasons then too.

    This whole movie paints their god as a cruel, spiteful, vindictive ahole. Which, you know, tracks, I'm just surprised to see the church being so blasé and on board with it.

    Location is lovely, two stars just for location scouts, other two for my halcyon memories of Ricci's acting in better roles.