"The Nativity Story" is, surprisingly, the story of the birth of Jesus. Normally when you think a Christian film, you think bad acting, cheap sets and average directing. This was refreshingly different. The cast did well with what they had, except maybe the Three Wise Men, generally the sets were good and the directing was solid. The main thing separating this and the many previous versions of this classic story was that the cast was generally Middle Eastern (except the Kiwi playing Mary) and the movie had a much more authentic feel about it.
It was obviously not as ground breaking as "The Passion Of The Christ", but this movie did cast a new light on several of the events surrounding Jesus' birth and therefore gave a new perspective eg the engagement of Joseph and Mary and the turmoil the pregnancy would have caused, the revelations given and most of all to me, the awesomeness of Jesus coming to earth in the form of a baby.
Not a Hollywood Blockbuster, but not too bad at all.
It was obviously not as ground breaking as "The Passion Of The Christ", but this movie did cast a new light on several of the events surrounding Jesus' birth and therefore gave a new perspective eg the engagement of Joseph and Mary and the turmoil the pregnancy would have caused, the revelations given and most of all to me, the awesomeness of Jesus coming to earth in the form of a baby.
Not a Hollywood Blockbuster, but not too bad at all.