Pretty Good

A lot of fun.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Blistering performances.

It hates men and the Jewish faith,.Do you think they could or would pull this with any Muslim story....No, that would be rude and raciest. Jacob is seen as a joke, good women can help shape a great man for good or evil.The idea Jacob would just say okay to false gods..wtf, and i guess he was a mental midget for he could not do anything without a woman's okay, not like advice but her okay dear, yes dear.

I absolutely loved this movie!! The acting was excellent as well as the story line. I could sense the feelings of the characters and had an easy time following the story line. I never gave much thought to Jacobs only daughter and this movie described it so well. Such as her life. It made me think of things that I never thought of before. Such as how so many people in the Bible have stories that we never knew about. I really enjoyed watching it from start to finish. It also helped me to understand Jacob more. I can't wait until the sequel comes out. The only thing I didn't like about the movie was the ending because it left me wanting to know more. But I still rate it 10 stars!!! I would by the DVD once it came out.

The movie was generally well-done. The acting well-matched the setting and script. Parts of the story were somewhat abrupt, but understandable since it's trying to pack most of a lifetime into 3 hours, however it could have been improved as far as time transitions. Background and clothing also appeared to well-fit the story.The story depicts the viewpoint of a woman bitter against her father and some of her brothers. It showed some anti-Semitic prejudice in depicting character flaws in Jacob and his sons, in contrast to the women and Canaanite men and Egyptians who were depicted as righteous people. One might wonder if the writer of the story was a non-Jewish Palestinian sympathizer instead of a bitter daughter/sister.Notwithstanding a few minor historical problems, the movie was professional and captivating, and worth seeing again.

It was an entertaining story if you told people it was fictional. I would have said I liked it a lot. Because this mini-series is from the Bible with Bible characters, you can't change the story and expect it to be good. It was terrible! It felt as though it was a feminist propaganda movie. All of the men were EVIL! Laban, Leah and Rachel's father was a wife beater! The bible showed him to be a tricksters not a wife abuser. Jacob, was a poor idiot who had no Godly conviction. The brothers were rogues.The ladies worship idols and regarded it as a girlie tradition. Only Rachel secretly stole her dad Laban's idol. Dinah was an arrogant, disrespectful brat, who calls her dad Jacob, talks to her Grandma like shes a peer! Then there is the Rape that never happened. She had consensual sex and then married him and her family are brutes?She has a son from her rapist(husband) that tries to kill her brother Joseph? Joseph appears to the king, dirty and unshaven and the bible makes a point of saying he cleaned himself, shaved himself and prepared to meet him. I wanted to like this one but couldn't. It feels obvious that the writer of this mini-series didn't like the original true story.