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One Night With the King (2006) Rank 5 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give One Night With the King (2006) a score of 2.3425 out of 4

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Cinema in Focus (Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin)

The biblical tale of Esther is one of romance, intrigue, vengeance and love. It is as modern as a reality show with a king choosing his queen from many gathered candidates. It is as brutal as the morning news with genocidal hatred and war. It speaks of ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at Cinema in Focus (Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin)

Christian Spotlight on the Movies

Esther, Jewish queen of gentile Persia, set a remarkable example of personal sacrifice. Although understandably at first hesitant, she willingly risked her life so others could be saved. In this respect she prefigured the sacrifice of the coming ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at Christian Spotlight on the Movies

Variety

Blessed with abundant production values and a minimum of campy excess, "One Night With the King" is a surprisingly satisfying attempt to revive the Old Hollywood tradition of lavishly appointed Biblical epics aimed at mainstream auds. Pic has a much broad ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at Variety

Political Film Society

The story of Queen Esther is found in the book of Esther in the Old Testament, but a recent novel, Hadassah: One Night With the King (2004) by Tommy Tenney with Mark Andrew Olsen, dramatizes her role is saving the Jews from genocide, an event now ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at Political Film Society

The Arizona Republic

One Night With the King has lavish costumes, giggling harems, a vast ancient city, huge armies, black riders and blood feuds. But no hobbits. ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at The Arizona Republic

TV Guide (Maitland McDonagh)

Produced by the son of Trinity Broadcasting Network founder Paul Crouch, this historical epic offers a solid two hours of spectacle and intrigue drawn from The Book of Esther by way of Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen's novel ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at TV Guide (Maitland McDonagh)

The Dallas Morning News

The movie is adapted from the Tommy Tenney-Mark Andrew Olsen novel based on the Bible's Book of Esther. It's a Jews-in-exile tale of Hadassah (Tiffany Dupont), who hides her Hebrew identity when she is taken into the harem of the Persian king, Xerxes ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at The Dallas Morning News

Deseret News, Salt Lake City

"One Night With the King" has lavish costumes, giggling harems, a vast ancient city, huge armies, black riders and blood feuds. But no hobbits. ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Boston Globe

``One Night With the King" has lavish costumes, giggling harems, a vast ancient city, huge armies, black riders , and blood feuds. It's a talky imitation DeMille -- no sex, little action, but plenty of intrigues, treachery , and comeuppance. ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at Boston Globe

Greenwich Village Gazette (Eric Lurio)

In the Eighth decade of the first century CE, a group of refugee rabbis met at a small town on the Mediterranean called Jabna. The great temple of Jerusalem had just been burnt to the ground and they were on a mission from God: They were to restructure ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at Greenwich Village Gazette (Eric Lurio)

Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)

Despite a title that makes it sound like a tell-all about a one-night stand with Elvis Presley, this movie is actually about the Jewish heroine, Queen Esther (Dupont), who saves her people from extermination through her marriage to the powerful King ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)

The Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)

"One Night With the King" has all the trappings of a biblical epic with resplendent Mogul palaces of Rajasthan, India, standing in for fifth century B.C. Persia and sumptuous costumes and design elements re-creating the Persian empire in breathtaking ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at The Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)

Plugged In

When a young Jewish orphan girl named Hadassah became the Queen of Persia sometime around 481 B.C., she had no idea that, as Queen Esther, she would be used by God to prevent the extinction of her entire race. It's a story found in the Old Testament Book ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at Plugged In

Haro Online

It's been nearly five years since Gener8ion Entertainment, the quality company behind such modern classics as The Omega Code, Carman: The Champion, and Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, produced a film. This is a Christian company that specializes in ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at Haro Online

Boxoffice Magazine

The 1950s and 1960s were the golden age of Biblical adaptations, with such films as The Ten Commandments, The Story of Ruth, Sodom and Gomorrah, Ben-Hur, The Robe and Esther and the King rallying the moral rectitude of war-weary audiences in search of ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at Boxoffice Magazine

Entertainment Insiders (Eric Lurio)

n the Eighth decade of the first century CE, a group of refugee rabbis met at a small town on the Mediterranean called Jabna. The great temple of Jerusalem had just been burnt to the ground and they were on a mission from God: They were to restructure ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at Entertainment Insiders (Eric Lurio)

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

One interesting plot wrinkle with biblical love stories is the possibility that your old boyfriend might get turned into a eunuch. ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

Cinema Blend

There are few movies more satisfying than those epic tales woven into enthralling pieces of visual storytelling. Classics like Ben Hur, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and The Ten Commandments all come to mind when considering that category of film. The Biblical ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at Cinema Blend

Los Angeles Times (Sam Adams)

There's not much joy in One Night With the King, a lavish but listless retelling of the biblical story of Esther. ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at Los Angeles Times (Sam Adams)

New York Post (V.A. Musetto)

The cinematography and sets look great, but the script is a bummer. It's overlong, overwrought and overblown. ...read the complete One Night With the King movie review at New York Post (V.A. Musetto)

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