I feel that I was bait and switched. I feel that the characters and the actors we're all good and even the drama was good. But I don't feel like the Patmos setting realistically and historically fit the actual exile which Saint John experienced at the time of the writing of the Book of Revelations. Although we know that all the revelations we're written into the first book and the other six or more copies would have all been copied from the first, before sending them out, the movie portrays the visions being sent out as an incomplete work, in fragments. Moreover, the visions are portrayed in the movie, but don't attempt to do an accurate enough portrayal of the words written in the Book of revelation, of the revelations. My expectation is that biblical visions would be is exact to the words as are written down in the Bible. Although I didn't mind the weapons of war being shown as modern weapons of war, as this war is still into our future, I didn't like that Jesus first portrayal didn't look exactly as was described in revelation. He should have been portrayed as a Divine version of the Hebrew high priest in all his costume. Moreover, simply viewing the vision as we did, without a narration of what John saw aborted our ability to enjoy the Grandeur of the spectacle for what was represented. I feel that a biblical movie should as exactly as possible represent the historical situation, or at minimum to not distort the historical situation. I wanted to give the movie a 7 for the action, historical settings, actors and characters, but I had to give it a 6, because it strayed from logic, and history, and the biblical account, making me feel bait and switched.
Review of The Apocalypse
