Movie Review: Nativity
This isn’t really a movie review because I missed at least half of the movie, but I intended to write something, so here goes. I’ve read a number of movie reviews of the Nativity, but so many of them seemed like they were written before viewing the movie that I really had no expectations for the movie. I was pleased with what I saw.
The movie begins with Herod’s men killing the boys two years and younger in Bethlehem, prophecied in the Old Testament as “Rachel weeping for her children, for they are no more.” It then flashes back a year before to the little town in Galilee where we meet Mary and Joseph before their engagement, where the story develops forward again.
The movie does two things well. It incorporates the truths we know from the scriptures with speculation about events that may have happened as the story unfolds. The second thing it shows is how much the world needed its Savior. The cruelty of the Romans, the brutality of King Herod, and the darkness in which the people of the world lived all show how normal life was cruel and hard and bitter.
There were many scenes of cruelty that helps us understand the Jew’s longing for the Messiah. Unfortunately, they were far to intense for my little 3-year old so we trekked out into the hallway outside and looked for entertainment there. We finally returned to the theater after some time, eventually missing about half of the movie. Even so, I found that I enjoyed it greatly and I recommend it to anyone, except for three-year olds, of course.
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December 28th, 2006 at 8:53 am
Movie was good, but the angels were a big dissapointment. We see some hawk or falcon fly around then then some guy who needs to come his hair stands somewhere far off and gives a quiet message. Come on here! Why did Gabriel always say “Fear Not”? Because everyone was scared out ot their wits when they saw the angels, that’s why. A little bit there would have gone a long way. And where were the heavenly host singing after Gabriel had announced the birth of Jesus to the Shepherds? Nowhere, in this movie. I think that in a story this well known to Christians, you would expect to see a bit more attention to some big details like this. Every Christmas what do we sing? “Hark the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!”