Touches You

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I first saw this on TBN or some Christian channel. They used to show bible stories on Sunday nights late, some are the old classics like George C. Scott as Abraham, and Ava Gardner as his wife. I'm not a religion freak, don't know Esther from Easter, I just like a good story.This seemed like it was going to be a nice big sweeping epic, and a romantic Hollywood interpretation of the bible story of Esther. I found it successfully ambitious, having the scope of a huge undertaking. The panoramic set designs, computer generated or no, were extremely imaginative and dreamily realistic. The river running through the palace was fantastic. The art direction, costume design were excellent! The scoring was wonderful, rich with varying themes.The casting was right on the money, who doesn't love Omar Sharif? Having never seen Tiffany Dupont before (or since) I thought she was a great Cinderella-type and played her part very well, considering her character had to mature from teen to adult in a short time.The biggest surprise, however was Xerxes, an actor I had never heard of, Luke Goss - was exceptional in his kingly role. He played his part as king with real authority, and believable humor. In the romantic scenes with Esther, he appeared strangely vulnerable and a trifle unsure, which was killer!! Not sure if that was acting or just a view into the soul of an actor insecure in a goofy love scene, but he must take care to never lose that quality. He may be moving up in line next to Daniel Craig, or Jason Statham, which is fine, we can always use more Bruce Willis's - but the fact is, there aren't many romantic parts for men in film anymore, which is a loss. This guy should try to find some - With the right director, he can knock the ladies flat with a couple of the right kind of glances.I liked it, would view it again.

The over-indulgent clowns at TBN have done it again!! This is one of the lousiest pieces of crap i ever wasted 2 hours of my life on and thats even weighed against all other TBN productions.. The real biblical story of Esther was great, but they ruined the story in this movie. especially when she began feeding ham to baboons. was that part in the Bible? it was so bad i think it should be called, "one night of extreme boredom". i would have given it zero stars, but unfortunately the minimum is one. the last unicorn is better than this crappy wreck.don't throw away 2 hours of your life watching this pathetic and miserable movie. this is 99% Hollywood and 1% bible. Xerxes 'More Precisely Ahauserus' was historically a very dominant ruler whose span of influence was truly sovereign and commanded the allegiance and confidence of a vast empire. By comparison Goss's "King" is neither sovereign or steadfast but rather comes across as a weepy old woman especially in his sappy dialogues with Ester. It certainly does not help that he is wearing more makeup than the actress playing Esther. Luke Goss's poor attempt at Aladdin-Esquire is deplorable and the screenwriter has the Biblical account badly confused with Arabian Nights. The casting was terrible, the dialogue was horrendous. Bottom-Line the only way to make a 2 hour movie out of 11 pages is to take ridiculous liberties including additional story lines which when the smoke clears leaves the end product totally unrecognizable. The Crouches and their cronies are yet to understand that big budgets and splashy visuals DO NOT make a great movie especially one saddled with an insipid plot and uninspiring actors. Ester was more than a pretty face and it amazes me how these idiots have taken one of the Bibles most inspirational characters and events and turned it to Melrose Place 588 AD. The credit music was horrible and the woman's voice singing it is remnescient of a cat being scalded with boiling water. The side affects of watching this piece of junk they call a movie may include multiple headaches, extreme boredom, falling asleep and excessive yawning: and an overwhelming urge to END ONE'S OWN LIFE!!!.

I admit, I had a difficult time staying interested in the movie during the first 30 minutes. I was extremely disappointed with the lead actress portraying Esther. I found her character very immature and childish as well as her dialogue. At times, the dialogue was so out of touch with everyone else's. It was almost like putting a 21st century teenager in that time period and nothing changes but the clothes! I think if her dialogue had been a bit more mature and "culturally in context" to the time frame as the other actors seemed to be, this movie could have had more of an impact. I still rated this movie a 9 out of 10 because I felt all of the other actors were superb, especially Luke Goss, King Xerxes. I was so mesmerized by his performance as the King. I do not agree with any criticisms of his portrayal because ultimately I think he worked the best with what he was given. I do believe that if this movie had more "hype" months prior to the release, it would have done more favorably at the box office. I do not recall ever seeing a trailer on cable television or any talk shows talking about this biblical epic. Considering some fine actors were in the movie, I think this movie was sold short to the general public. It is an exceptional movie and my only criticism was of the lead actress, otherwise, a great addition to any epic collection.

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.