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‘The King of Kings’ Review: Oscar Isaac Voices Jesus in Visually Generic and Heavy-Handed Christian Animated Film
'The King of Kings,' from Angel Studios and starring Oscar Isaac as Jesus Christ, is too visually generic and heavy-handed to transcend its genre.
Though there’s plenty of effects animation in the form of storms, diabolical gusts of wind and torrential rain, there’s little aesthetic personality to “The King of Kings.” Conspicuously anglo human characters resemble the generic design often seen in low-rent CG fare produced overseas: large heads with pristine skin and pronounced facial features. After the main credits, a message featuring roughly a dozen white children praising the movie asks attendees to promote it and encourages them to scan a QR code on the screen (a practice that has been part of Angel releasing since “Sound of Freedom”). After Jesus saves a woman from being stoned by making the crowd aware of their own sins, Dickens tells Walter that some people use the word of God to try to manipulate others, but before he goes on with his rant, his wife (Uma Thurman) walks in the room with a batch of cookies and the story moves along.
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