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Positive:
5
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews
Mar 27, 2015
Season 1 Review:
With an efficient and alternately clumsy and eloquent screenplay by Walon Green, Killing Jesus does not vary much from the Via Dolorosa. As a result, the lavish NatGeo treatment works a lot better than it did on the channel’s adaptations of O’Reilly’s earlier books, “Killing Lincoln” and “Killing Kennedy.”
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Mar 25, 2015
Season 1 Review:
While covering a good deal of ground, the filmmakers don’t linger over the ordeal of the Crucifixion in the way, say, Mel Gibson did in “The Passion of the Christ,” and the program benefits from that sense of economy. Still, the three-hour telecast (about three-quarters that length, sans commercials) must recover from a truly terrible opening.
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Mar 27, 2015
Season 1 Review:
As ham-fisted as the filmmaking is, the anticipated finale is gritty, convincing and moving. We feel the wrenching pain Jesus experiences on the cross. His final words are spoken like a man about to die after hours and hours of unimaginable agony, with resolution and perhaps a bit of relief. It isn’t enough to rescue the rest of the feeble effort, though.
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TV Guide MagazineMar 19, 2015
Season 1 Review:
If more of Killing Jesus had unfolded from their perspectives [Romans and Jewish leaders], keeping Jesus remote and mysterious, it might have been more compelling. [23 Mar - 5 Apr 2015, p.15]
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