37
Metascore
25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallIt's a capable Sunday school lesson with little for anyone to challenge and practically nothing that offends.
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreUnlike “The Passion of the Christ,” there’s no Aramaic with English subtitles, a lot less blood and no anti-Semitism. No character feels like a caricature... But it’s also dramatically flat, with few actors making much of an impression as they play saints and sinners.
- 50New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithSon of God is guilty of all the sins of the 1950s Bible epics, but without any of the majesty.
- 50Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzThis is a rich, and important story. There’s no argument there. The only problem with “Son of God” is that there are much more compelling ways to tell it.
- 50New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDirector Christopher Spencer’s biblical yarn lacks the complex rigor of Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ” and the fury of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” leaving its star, Diogo Morgado, stuck in a film that’s stiff and earnest.
- 50Boston GlobePeter KeoughBoston GlobePeter KeoughFor the most part, though, the film maintains its low ambitions; it is mostly inoffensive, only occasionally ludicrous, and at times, at least for me, genuinely moving.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThis quite mediocre spawned-from-television feature feels like a Jesus film designed primarily for true believers, meaning that the faith-based public that has already been put on alert by seal-of-approval-dispensing church leaders that this is a film to see will make the Fox release into a significant Heartland attraction.
- 30The DissolveKeith PhippsThe DissolveKeith PhippsExcerpted from The History Channel’s 10-part 2013 miniseries The Bible, then given extra footage, Son Of God boils the life of Jesus down to feature-length, but it plays less like a movie than a hastily edited attempt to explore a new revenue stream.
- 20Film.comJordan HoffmanFilm.comJordan HoffmanFor a movie with the ostensible mission of spreading the Gospel, it does a poor job of speaking to anyone except the faithful.
- 12Slant MagazineAbhimanyu DasSlant MagazineAbhimanyu DasThe film plays for much of its length like a terrible sketch comedy with one-dimensional caricatures shuffling listlessly through a succession of stilted tableaux.