Acts | 
| Director: Regardt Van Den Bergh
Actors: Simone Newman, Jennifer O'neill, James Brolin, Matthew Roberts (vi), Bruce Marchiano
Studio: Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.99
Buy Used: $22.00
You Save: $2.99 (12%)
Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 55466
Format: Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 183 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 020049004685
EAN: 0020049004685
ASIN: B0009DWW36
Theatrical Release Date: October 1, 1994
Release Date: April 8, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Awful August 23, 2008
Dalton F. Sayles (Pawcatuck, CT)
The acting is awful and will put one to sleep. The actors and director should be ashamed to be associated with this release. The movie was intended to be an enrichment for our Bible study class. Disappointing!
Poorly directed presentation July 26, 2008
S. Mirgon
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very poorly directed. Although script is word for word from Acts (NIV), director often added laughter to portrayal of events - examples, at Pentacost & during Paul's statement concerning Jesus' appearance to him on the road to Damascus and the events following his conversion. The director obviously does not believe the text to be credible.
HORRIBLE!!! June 27, 2008
GZP (Pittsburgh, PA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Too bad you can't rate with negative stars! They dressed the assylum up in bath towels and let them go grinning through the Book of Acts. You'd have to be nuts to buy this one, let alone watch it! I'm writing a letter to Luke to express my condolences!!
 Low Budget & Strangely Directed June 21, 2008
Irish Reader (Bastardstown, Republic of Ireland)
This video dramatises the Book of Acts (NIV translation). Though it has a large cast, it's quite an amateur production overall. Fortunately, most of the major characters - and some minor ones - are acted out well. Paul and Peter are both quite convincing, as are Tertullus and Festus. But much of the casting is mere "amateur dramatics" - especially the extras. Before ordering this product, be aware of the following 4 peculiarities...
1. In certain scenes there's sudden, spontaneous laughter and the source of the humour is not obvious. Did the early apostles have "in" jokes? The chuckling is not uproarious, but it's still a bit weird.
2. Although most scenes are properly acted out, for several passages Luke simply 'narrates' the story to his friends as he lounges around on a ship or reclines on a beach. For this reason, we never get to see interesting characters like Aeneas, Dorcas, Sapphira and her husband Ananias, Apollos, Paul's nephew or the seven sons of Sceva. Actually, one of Luke's own friends/shipmates dictates the lines of Paul's nephew as Luke smiles at him. I don't know what's going on there! There are other scenes where Luke is depicted proofreading his own scroll, which seems genuine enough.
3. Several place-names are mispronounced. Sometimes it's by omission of the final syllable (as in "Derbe" and "Mitylene"). Elsewhere, the pronunciations may be right or wrong but they sound unfamiliar to someone who's listened to several audio Bibles (eg. I've never heard "Cnidus" pronounced the way it is in this movie).
4. There are two farcical scenes in Chapter 18. When "the crowd there turned on Sosthenes the synagogue leader and beat him in front of the proconsul" (v17) the other actors barely lay a hand on him! They merely tug gently at some of his clothes. Hardly a first century "beating"! Are they afraid they'll be sued for injury? Also, as Paul leaves the synagogue at Corinth, he raises his voice saying, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles" (v6). The Jews can be seen shouting abusively at him. Yet apart from Paul's own voice, which is clearly heard, there's TOTAL silence in the synagogue! Extremely poor directing in my view.
 the Book of Acts May 6, 2008
Lee Martin
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A nice interpretation of the Book of Acts with the scriptural readings of the entire book as told through the eyes of Luke.
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