This is a film about the life of St. Paul has some good stuff going for it. The acting, for the most part, was pretty good. The film locals, costume design, setting design, and cinematography were pretty good. The script was the problem. The writer decided to create a fictitious character named Ruben, a Sadducee, who is a friend of Saul, the Pharisee. When Saul/Paul converts to Christianity, Ruben becomes his bitter enemy. I'm not against fictionalizing aspects in a film about a historical person, but it just didn't work. (The 2018 film PAUL, APOSTLE OF CHRIST was mostly fiction dealing with the last days of Paul in prison telling Luke his story as Luke writes Acts. Even though it was fictionalized account it worked better than the fictional aspects of this film.) I would have liked the film to have spent more time on Paul and his missionary work then on the fictitious villain. The scenes that work are when Paul is interacting with Peter, James, and Barnabas.
If you want to see a much better film on Paul see the 1981 tv movie PETER AND PAUL (starring Anthony Hopkins as Paul and Robert Foxworth as Peter). Also, the above mentioned PAUL, APOSTLE OF CHRIST is pretty good, too. Though this film is better than PAUL: THE EMISSARY.
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