Peter and Paul
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List Price: $39.95
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• NTSC
In Theaters : 12 April, 1981
Video Release : 01 October, 1996 |
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Peter and Paul Customer Reviews
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Not a very good movie
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| This was really a very strange and not very entertaining movie. If you're interested in seeing Biblical characters brought to life on screen, I would suggest "Quo Vadis" or "Passion of the Christ" perhaps. This movie twists Scripture to create a rivalry and hostility between Peter and Paul that didn't exist. Until the final scenes, it portrays Peter as a mopish, do-nothing, cowardly dunderhead who is constantly bemoaning how worthless he is in comparison to Paul. This is the Peter who was the leader of the Apostles, who boldly preached to Jerusalem on Pentecost, whose very shadow was reputed to heal the sick, the Peter through whose mouth "the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel"? (Acts 15:7) This would be like a movie portraying Napoleon as an unassuming little milquetoast. Strange. Almost as weird as that was the bizarre histrionics and speech patterns Anthony Hopkins chose to attribute to Paul. When he had to act angry, Hopkins did an exact impression of the role he played as Adolf Hitler in 1980's "The Bunker", ranting and raving apoplectically like the Fuhrer in his last days. (I was always expecting him to start screaming about the Russians). When conversing normally, he spoke in a very disconcerting, clipped manner reminiscent of a bad William Shatner impersonator. To add to the hilarity, the director cast Eddie Arnold (Green Acres) as the Roman Procurator of Judea, who sleepwalked through his performance in his out-of-place Midwestern accent. All in all, a pretty bad movie. |
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