Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

nicholls_les This could have been so good. The Biblical story is a great one and there was no need to mess with the characters of the Story. Esther comes across as weak and uncertain. The character of Mordecai was not the one you read about in the Bible despite the excellent John Rhys-Davies trying to make the most of a bad script. I also thought Jyoti Dogra as Vashti was more beautiful and would have been better suited to play Esther.Luke Goss was awful and a total mismatch for a King of a world empire, he had no presence whatsoever.But the main problem was that the story as shown in this movie makes no sense. Read the Bible account yourself and you will see the real passion that was missing here.

rusoviet some commentators reviews led me to expect a real mess – hardly so. I share many viewers of what has transpired for 'faith based' entertainment – shoddy acting and writing. Usually very heavy handed with an altar call – not here. The script could have used a little tightening and it was a shame that O'Toole was barely in the movie but the rest of the cast gave a good performance led by John Rhys-Davies – in some scenes he reminded me of Sean Connery. There is some toying with the scripture but the essence of the film is pretty faithful to scripture.Worth a view and a good tool for presenting scripture.

chondram I hope they make more movies like this. I saw it at the theater and bought the DVD. We watch this movie often. Buy it for a friend!We need to support such good films as this so they pay for themselves and make a profit. Otherwise we'll be stuck with low quality Christian movies that go straight to DVD.Watching this film made me go back and read the story of Ester in the Bible. To me, if your not familiar with the story, I say watch the movie, then read the Bible. Costumes, scenery and story line were very well done, just can't say enough how much we (still) enjoy watching this movie.

milla54 In my entire life, I have only walked out of 3 movies. This was one of them.From a production standpoint, the acting was wooden and unbelievable, the costumes were opulent, but often badly fitting, or just ugly. The makeup looks like it was applied by a beauty-school drop out. There was unnecessary amounts of cheesy, canned dialog that was painful. The relationships depicted felt fake and false, and not at all realistic or deep.The main character, Ester was childish, immature, and so overly sugary-sweet it was intolerable. Her "love" for Xerxes was awkward and unbelievable.More over, it did not come close to actually conveying the true depth and beauty of the biblical Ester story. This film took the plot points of that story and then managed to completely remove the whole soul from it. Ester's quiet strength is entirely lost.Lastly, this film is chock full of anachronisms, from Ester literacy level, to the thick American accents.It was all around bad. Please, if you are looking for a good film, look somewhere else.