Naike Rivelli reminded me so much of her mother, screen legend Ornella Muti, in the early 1980s.A strange find at an archaeological dig in Israel may change our view on human history and religion. In opposite to a few other reviewers here, I think the actors did okay (within the limited possibilities the script gave them). It just is so depressing that this particular novel offered something we rarely get to see: new ideas, no cliches! But the movie doesn't use ANY of these ideas and delivers a below average action movie (I voted 3/10) instead. This is definitely not a candidate for the `worst film ever'. The movie's only virtue is: every five minutes, somebody fires a gun to keep you awake. Bang, bang, one character less to write lines for, story even more simple from now on. In the movie however, they somehow didn't know what to do with him, since they wanted to rewrite the ending anyway (with another big explosion if possible), so somebody just shoots the professor in the middle of the film without any convincing motive. In the end, he is the key figure to the solution. 3 hours should be plenty of time to develop a clever storyline! Why were the producers scared and preferred to waste the huge potential? For example, the professor (in the book) is in a difficult situation, standing between his employer and the hero (his student). The movie script abandoned all creative ideas and all logical thought that made the book so impressive, instead it replaced them by a stupid action story we have seen a thousand times before: hey, that guy stole something that rightfully belongs to us! Let's chase him, torture him, kill him! Thus, a breathtaking story full of suspense was turned into a violent, boring 3 hour movie. His characters think a lot about the problems of time-travelling and the origins of religious belief, a fascinating concept. Andreas Eschbach, the author, had a very clever way of never letting you easily guess what will happen next. Superstar, surely envied by Cecil B De Mille, but where did he leave the camera for the world to see?), many new ideas and surprising turns. The book offered an amazing story (time-traveller presumably filmed J.C. But `Jesus Video' goes way too far to be acceptable. So I do agree, a screenplay writer has to simplify the story.
That film would be 10 hours long, have endless dialogue scenes and be terribly boring. You can't film a 600 page book and stay true to the text. I almost always avoid to compare movies to the novels they're based upon.
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