Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Robert Wahler OK, buckle up. You are going to hear from the only one in the world who understands the Gospel of Judas. Not boasting, just stating a fact so we can set this explanation in the proper context. I am not just positing another opinion. I am, for one thing, a PRACTICING GNOSTIC, or as we are known today, a mystic. Gnostics were mystics. They, as mystics today, practiced a discipline of spiritual self-sacrifice. In a nutshell, the goal is the sacrifice of the individual person, or personality, if you will, in favor of assuming the being of the Master, or the one who holds the true Being of God. Sounds lofty. It is lofty. As some Eastern mystics have said, be prepared to offer your head on a platter (think John the B) and don't even think of crying about it. The Path isn't for everyone.I wrote two books on this subject, and you can find them by searching Amazon with my real name and key words "Judas" and "Saviors". In writing the first one on saviors in the Bible, I discovered what was in the Gospel of Judas. I knew about it before, sure, but not what it said. Only after an introduction to Dr. Robert Eisenman's work on other Apocryphal texts and especially the Dead Sea Scrolls did I get interested in Judas. Dr. Eisenman pointed out that the characters of Judas and Stephen covered the man, James the Just, in the canonical telling of the history of the Church, Acts 1 and 7 respectively. Acts 1 is the "replacement" of Judas as he dies, a cover for the succession of James to mastership, and Acts 7 is the death of Stephen as cover for the blasphemy stoning of James -- both events covered in sources other than the New Testament. Eisenman, being Jewish, didn't recognize the living Masters tradition, but I do (rssb.org). I decided to look into the character Judas in the one place he should really reveal himself, the so-called "Betrayal": Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 22, and John 13/18. Yes, Judas is James in nearly every line. The proof is in the Nag Hammadi Apocalypses of James and Peter. This is what my second book is about, written as a sequel to the first, after learning what Eisenman taught me. There will be this, and much more than this, coming out in the near future. I am still learning. It is my life's work now to bring this realization to the public awareness. I am not a Christian-basher. I used to be one. SO,God bless all who want to learn the truth about this. Salvation awaits. Not salvation from death, but rebirth.... That's mysticism. :)

gavin6942 This film chronicles the discovery of an ancient text, known as the Gospel of Judas, that offers a different view of the disciple who betrayed Jesus.How do we go about rating something that was made for television as a National Geographic special? The commercial breaks should be cut a bit better (on Netflix you are left looking at a blank screen far too long), but all in all it transfers to a 90-minute documentary well.More or less, all you need is Elaine Pagels, the undisputed expert on the Gnostic Gospels and related books. And she was here, so that worked. Some of the "this is probably how it happened" probably was not necessary. And the order of events was a bit odd at times...But, for history buffs and religious scholars, this was a good look at an old document that may be greatly important. (Even if it changes Christianity in no way, it changes our way of looking at the early churches and sects that sprouted up.)

victoria4504 I found this documentary very interesting and eye-opening. While interesting, I was disappointed in what the documentary actually tells us. In trying to put together the ancient text of the Gospel of Judas, the experts tell us that they were able to recover 85% of the text, making it readable for the first time in thousands of years.Unfortunately, they only gave us a "glimpse" of what is written in the Gospel of Judas. The only written words confirmed were "Gospel of Judas." As far as I could tell, no other original quotes were mentioned. This seems unusual and I tend to question why? I'm going to the Internet to see if I can find more information on the actual words of this Gospel.

dy158 In the entire course of the history of Christianity, he was being labelled as the traitor to Jesus before the cruxification happened. Many condemned him since. But when records of maybe a long-lost scroll about Judas surfaced which showed a different side of him, how will the public react.This documentary was first shown on the National Geographic around the Easter period this year and I even managed to watch it when it was on the cable here. As from what I remembered in my earlier school days at those chapel sessions (given I once attended a missionary school and the chapel is part of the school), there is a traitor among all of Jesus's disciples when they were all having the Last Supper. So, this documentary began to change from what I remembered and gave me another perspective of who Judas is maybe.It may be an two-hour long documentary as I realised, but then when there was a repeat of it, even on the local free-to-air television here at a later date, I tried to watch it again. It was really insightful as to hear from those who had researched about the subject and gave their opinions. Even how maybe the Bible we all knew today actually contain many gospels before the ones Christians actually knew nowadays. Real eye-opener for me, even as a non-Christian.I mean coming back to the documentary, given when the scroll was found, it was almost becoming dust. And when it was being pieced together, it showed a very different Judas that we all knew from the Bible, whether we are Christians or not ourselves. I am not a Christian myself but then I feel the documentary has done a nice job somewhere along the line in shedding the light of Judas.Maybe it may take some time for people to understand that actually there is a different side of Judas. But given how I had always know of the National Geographic's standards in producing their documentaries, I do have some faith in them. So, if you are not afraid in knowing the other side of Judas, this is recommended.