Christmas with the Chosen

That this theater presentation is boring as hell. Admittedly I was asked to attend this "movie" and didn't know what I was getting into. Be warned the run time is 2 hours with an hour and 17 minutes of that being a bad music video. I guess I see the appeal if you want to see artists lip-syncing and pretending to play instruments that are not plugged in, followed by a 25 minute episode that shows very little of the birth of Jesus. For me however it was 2 hours I'll never get back.

This is not a movie. It's a Christmas special. The first 1:10 minutes are literally Christian artists singing - they are all amazing absolutely, but if you're not prepared to watch music videos for an hour straight this will be hard for you to sit through. The episode itself was honestly hard to watch as my entire family was ready to leave, we could not get all of the music out of our heads. This did not do justice at all to how epic the TV show is.

I love the Chosen series. I was looking forward to seeing a new episode on the big screen. Instead I saw a thrown together 30 or so minute clip of bad acting, poorly written dialogue, surrounded in insincere testimony of actors reading off a prompter. It is unfortunate that those who have not seen the series will likely steer away from it after seeing this. I felt as if it was a cash grab. They could have made one of their best episodes surrounding the birth, and really dropped the ball. No one is as saddened by this, as I.

I came to see a story about the Birth of Jesus, Mary and Joseph's trouble finding a place in Bethlehem, their closeness and trust in God.

Instead I sat through what felt like the longest music video ever.

Be prepared for more than 1hr of music and a brief, significantly brief, representation of the Christmas story.

Don't take me wrong, I love Christmas music as the next Christian, but if you're advertising Christmas with the Chosen, I did not see how these bands and singers were a representation of the Chosen, the project and the series that we have come to love and long for.

I think it would've been better off with a different name, music and the Chosen, or something like that.

Speechless. The manger scene truly hits home if you have a child of your own. Brilliantly acted, brilliant production.

As with everything else involving The Chosen, an absolute masterpiece.