Samson
After losing the love of his life to a cruel Philistine prince, a young Hebrew with Supernatural strength defends his people, sacrificing everything to avenge his love, his people, and his God.
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- Cast:
- Taylor James , Jackson Rathbone , Billy Zane , Caitlin Leahy , Frances Sholto-Douglas , Rutger Hauer , Lindsay Wagner
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the audience applauded
Good start, but then it gets ruined
Excellent but underrated film
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
What a boring movie no good story only hyping Samson that too not giod
Great movie, don't listen to the other reviews, they just upset cuz it appeals to a younger audience like myself in our 20's.
Honestly, I was surprised that I enjoyed Samson more than I thought I would. I went into this movie knowing almost nothing about it and when I saw that it had been created by Pureflix my heart sank a little. The best they can do is OK and the worst... Well, anyways, the acting was OK. There will be no Oscars handed out for these roles, but it wasn't so bad as to be distracting... most of the time. The scenes and backdrop were beautiful. It almost makes me want to get on a plane and visit South Africa. The fight scenes were not all that impressive. When Samson picked up the jawbone to kill one thousand men... I kid you not, I laughed the whole way through that bit.Like I said, overall it was not really all that bad for a Christian film. What truly bothered me far more than the production value of this film was the way they warped the message in an attempt to add spiritual value. If you look at the Biblical account of Samson he was not a good man. Delilah was definitely not a good woman, and yet in order to make this movie more appealing to their target Evangelical audience (of which I am a part), this film comes off making both decent, or at worst Byronic, heroes. Rather than creating a Biblically sound movie, the end result is more of an apologetic for Calvin's just war theory.
Ok, it is no Cecil B Demille epic and there are no Oscar winning performances. But it was engaging enough, and it did hold my interest, and entertaining enough. To tell the truth only watched it because the bloke out of those British Vanquis credit card adverts was in it. If you can get passed that it is made on a budget obviously, you might enjoy it, give it a try though. Actually, I am going to watch it again. Watched it on the pc first time round, now going to watch it on our 50 inch tv for a better experience.Well got round to watching it on our bigscreen tv, and I still think it is good, not brilliant, but good. Put it this way, I gauge how interesting a film is by if I go to the toilet while watching it, if I am bursting and hold off going till the end of the film, that means the film was good to me, I needed to go desperately, but held off, because the film had me hooked. Oh and I have upped the rating to 7 from 6 also.