Well, it took a few weeks but I finally got around to seeing this movie.
This review by Michael Spencer put me in the right frame of mind to see and appreciate this movie, and I was not disappointed. “Dumb cops, weird intellectuals, and a 354th cousin of Jesus” certainly seemed to be an accurate description of all that this movie was about.
When I saw the movie there were about 30 other people in the theater with me. In light of all the negative reviews that this movie got, it was actually somewhat surprising to me that there were that many people there.
I must say that the camera work was quite interesting, with the camera seeming to move in a circle around whatever it was looking at. By the time I left the movie, I was feeling quite dizzy.
Lots of disconnected bits of movie all thrown together; one moment you’re seeing a wild car chase through downtown Paris and the next you’re seeing two people standing and talking calmly somewhere. (Speaking of car chases, that bubble car that Sophie was driving was a hoot.)
Folks, if this sorry excuse for a movie is enough to make you abandon your faith in Christ in favor of the new age Jesus and the sacred feminine, then good riddance. There may be plenty of people out there who believe this stuff, but then there are also plenty of people who believe in Sasquatch, alien abductions, and other such things. And I would do better writing about those things than devoting any more attention to this movie.
Oh well. At least it wasn’t as bad as this movie.
