Pontius Pilate is old and whiney and is fixated on upsetting public opinion. Mary is cast well, but her role is too brief, as is all the twelve disciples who are never given any individual definition (except for Simon). Also, Mary Magdalene looked like Miss Karate Woman beats Godzilla when she kicked an advancing soldier out of her way and escaped out of a stone window. That, and when Clavius's cut moved from the side of his lip to the center of his lip in one scene. Then he beams and prances away the joke's on Clavius! The only funnier scene was when Clavius asked a group of men, 'Does any of you know Mary Magdalene?' and most all of them raised their hands.

Clavius demands that Bartholomew tell him where Jesus's body is, and Bartholomew grins flippantly and conveys that he ain't telling nothin'! Clavius kicks him, interrogates him more harshly, and Bartholomew slowly approaches Clavius, bends down to his ear, and says, 'he's everywhere!'. In his final good-bye scene, Jesus glibly calls across the sand yelling his farewell as if mom was telling her kids to be good while dad's in charge.Ĭlavius's young side kick Lucius is played by Tom Felton, and unlike Draco, Lucius follows Clavius around looking confused. While Fiennes was cast well, Curtis, who plays Jesus, is a cross between a hippie in California and a happy skateboard dude in a Coke commercial. The viewer expected this Roman soldier to perhaps resort to violence or torture to get his captures to speak and reveal where Jesus's body is, knowledge that he desperately needed to satisfy his commander, Pontius Pilate, but he never quite went that far, either out of compassion or exhaustion.

The way Fiennes played his role was intriguing, capturing civilians to question them about the whereabouts of Jesus's body, then dismissing them at will. During the battle in the beginning of the movie, Clavius apathetically kills a Jewish rebel, and later, during the tri-crucifixion scene, he breaks a prisoner's leg as he's dying on the cross, then runs his spear through Jesus's ribs, and he's no more bothered by this than if someone fender-bendered him at the supermarket. None-the-less, duty demands that he kill from time to time, which he dutifully does, and he seems half mortified over this, and half compliant. He is tired of it all and wants to retire to a quiet life with a family and without witnessing any more deaths. Clavius seems more of a tired observer with his deep stare and mellow manner, and he seems appalled by the violence that the Roman soldiers perform, violence that he himself is called on to perform as well. Risen gave a fresh but solemn view of the biblical story of the aftermath of Jesus's crucifixion as it tells the story through the eyes of a conflicted and emotionally drained Roman soldier named Clavius.

Rating: PG-13 (Some Disturbing Images|Biblical Violence) As his journey takes him to places never dreamed of, Clavius discovers the truth that he's been seeking. Accompanied by trusted aide Lucius (Tom Felton), his quest to disprove rumors of a risen Messiah makes him question his own beliefs and spirituality. He arrives at a crossroad when he's tasked to investigate the mystery of what happened to Jesus (Cliff Curtis) following the Crucifixion. Roman military tribune Clavius (Joseph Fiennes) remains set in his ways after serving 25 years in the army.

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