Genesis

No character development. No original text. Some attempt at a poetic narrative rewrite. We didn't make it even 10 minutes.

I think the woman at the beginning was Hagar, but why? You're telling the genesis story from a victim's perspective. Gross.

The plot dragged and did not have any context or explanation. It was entirely disjointed and you have to infer where and who people are. Someone unfamiliar with the Bible would be lost entirely. We turned it off and got The Bible series from Amazon instead.

I don't doubt that there was effort and expense in making this movie, but the oversight of a good script was just too much to tolerate.

I can praise the cleanness of the cameras, the good selection of settings and the general dialog, but otherwise the film falls apart.

While I get the film wanted to distinguish itself from other biblical adaptations, the execution was disastrous. The point the movie wants to get across was not clear at all, while the various plot points of the book of Genesis were shown in a messy way that they fail to convey any consistent message through them. The staging is also poor, as it shows Noah floating on water as opposed to being in the Ark, which makes everything look confusing, or Joseph doesn't change at all when he meets his brothers again.

The fashion/costuming is not good in this movie, since it includes buttoned shirts when they appeared after Christ and pants don't look very sensical for that age, even if pants did exist in Ancient Ages. There are some characters with looks that fit 21th century more, like Adam having a perfectly trimmed beard or young Jacob having a modern classic haircut and a perfect shave.

The acting was not the worst thing ever, but I had some problems with Venus not having too much credibility as the mother of Moses due to the lack of chemistry with the baby, while Avery Merrifield looks weird in a bad way when portraying Adam, although his acting improves when Eve enters the scene and his sadness for Abel's death is decently impacting. The dialog was generally alright, but the emotions weren't conveyed too well in the delivery.

It tried to be artistic and have an identity, but the message gets lost and the film looks pointless in the end. You can see potential, but this adaptation was not very effective.

I've seen a lot of biblical movies. Some great, some, good, some bad and some worse. This is by far the worse I've ever seen. If I could, I wouldn't give a star at all.

Don't know if it's best to cry or to rofl over it. Either way seems fit.

Calling it a poetic look of man's beginning relationship with God is very, very generous.

At its best one could call it a muddled and confusing philosophic approach to Jochebed's try to recount Moses' background, that has totally nothing to do with the description the bible gives us.

The movie seems to be written and produced by people who don't know anything about the bible, which contradicts the bio of the director/writer.

The impressions given of the history written in Genesis, are distorted and even somtimes misleading. The only right thing is the existing of Eden, Adam and Eve, Caïn and Able, Abraham, Isaäk, Jakob, Jozef, the people around them and some cold facts. But that little wouldn't make a movie.

Besides the enormous flaws in storytelling, the props and cloths missed the setting of Genesis by several millenia. Even the choosen locations were in almost all cases/scenes wrong.

This movie should come with a double warning: One for those who believe and one for those who don't.

Nearing the end now, it comes to me, that the producers have given us a rather different, yet meaningful look at one of the most poignant books of the Bible and it actually serves as an opportunity to recollect each of the jewels and the setting of each piece of the book that is Genesis! Having spent 9 months in a study of this most significant biblical account, it was an opportunity to recall each of the many parts of the book and have drawn the conclusion that I may need a second glance at it!

Well done Austin Bible church! A crown awaits you in Glory! I'll rank this production right up with Mel's Passion of the Christ!

The trailer had me morbidly curious.

"Genesis" wasn't horrible. I think the acting was really pretty good throughout. Jordan Jones did an utterly fantastic job as Joseph. Musical theatre nut that I am, I am all too familiar with "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," and I was almost kind of tired of hearing the story of Joseph. But Jones was so good in this role that I actually found myself holding back a tear or two.

The Adam and Eve story was "sort of" interesting, but I felt like so much more could have been done with it. We are talking about the first two people to ever exist. The writers could have let their imagination run riot with what that might have actually been like. Instead, everything seemed cliche. Adam smirking and then jumping into the pool of water was kind of thought provoking. Was it his first time seeing water? Not sure who taught him how to swim? Perhaps since it was before The Fall, he just magically knew how to do things like that? Eve was unquestionably beautiful but lacking in personality, I think. It was as if she was put in the movie for One Reason Only: To eat that fruit. The rest of her scenes were kind of glossed, I think. Also, who knew that kissing was a "thing" between the first two humans? I had always been taught that came later, when mothers chewed food and passed it to their infants mouth-to-mouth.

A few more observations/questions:

The costuming was horrible, right? Did they have buttons back then? And one of the characters (was it Cain?) looked like he was wearing a thermal undershirt. I'm certain no one wore pants back then either???? And seriously, what was up with some of the male characters being clean-shaven and sporting 21st Century haircuts?

I don't think there was such a thing as white bread back then. (Correct me if I am wrong).

I hated the narration throughout. I don't feel it offered anything to the movie at all.

When Abraham was about to sacrifice Isaac, you'd think Isaac would have put up a little fight. (A tiny one, at least????).

Last, I was able to follow these stories primarily because I was already familiar with them. I think this movie would be confusing to someone who wasn't familiar with them.