All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

This could have been so good. The Biblical story is a great one and there was no need to mess with the characters of the Story. Esther comes across as weak and uncertain. The character of Mordecai was not the one you read about in the Bible despite the excellent John Rhys-Davies trying to make the most of a bad script. I also thought Jyoti Dogra as Vashti was more beautiful and would have been better suited to play Esther.Luke Goss was awful and a total mismatch for a King of a world empire, he had no presence whatsoever.But the main problem was that the story as shown in this movie makes no sense. Read the Bible account yourself and you will see the real passion that was missing here.

This would have been an OK if lightweight movie, if it had not claimed to be telling the Biblical story. The writers took a story that could have personal lessons and added a anachronistic civics lesson. Rather than being a story of a individual struggling with the life thrust upon her who is then faced with a leap of faith, we have an aspiring freedom fighter. Instead of a not too bright, debauched older king we have a "hottie" looking for love. Instead of a petty villain looking for self looking for power, we have a mad avenger. Oddly enough, the movie begins facing front on one of the more difficult commands of the Bible, the command that the Jews kill all residents of the Promised Land, including noncombatants down to the infants and unborn. It makes the threat of the same fate for the Jews living in Persia seem ironic at best.Forcing the story into the romance novel genre, creates problems. If not a rule, a guideline often followed in romances is that the heroine never has sex with anyone she doesn't love, but, if she does, she doesn't enjoy it. Hence the transformation of a king who probably killed his wife because she didn't desire to be ogled by a bunch of drunks to a romance novel hero.The political story (except for the line that the Greeks believed all men were created equal) might have worked if it had not been so alien to the original story.Perhaps someday someone with make a movie worthy of this story.

I hope they make more movies like this. I saw it at the theater and bought the DVD. We watch this movie often. Buy it for a friend!We need to support such good films as this so they pay for themselves and make a profit. Otherwise we'll be stuck with low quality Christian movies that go straight to DVD.Watching this film made me go back and read the story of Ester in the Bible. To me, if your not familiar with the story, I say watch the movie, then read the Bible. Costumes, scenery and story line were very well done, just can't say enough how much we (still) enjoy watching this movie.

People! People! How can you say that it was off track and that the Biblical side of the story was taken out? how do you expect this great reenactment of history to reach people who have no idea of God or of the Bible? One night with the king has changed our world and if I had the money I would fund another Biblical movie... this was one of the best movies i've seen... 21st century FOX made a special department just for Gods personal movies, called FOXfaith. now if that doesn't prove the that this movie was a God thing I don't know what does! May God have mercy on all you who discredit His mighty works.