Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

KATO-SUBZERO 1 November 2016: I saw this movie twice, yesterday and once three years ago. The cast is good, the story line is good. God is a Holy Spirit and God came in human form as Jesus Christ (Yeshua) to forgive us, save us and die for us.My two favorite actors playing Jesus Christ / Yeshua is Diogo Morgado and Bruce Marchiano. Bruce does a good job as Jesus an ordinary man, who is proved to be Not ordinary.I liked this movie from start to finish. I was happy that near the end, Jesus finally showed a bit of power over Satan in the café when Satan after convincing "Steve Borden as Nick Crusher Crushetti to follow him, Satan said "that's one for me." In a flicker Jesus lets Satan know who is still in control and who has the power.Jaci Velasquez and the rest of the cast is fairly okay. The best ing cast was actor, Jaime Nieto and actress Dinah Williams.I give this movie two thumbs up.

kenthovind-40116 By thunder! That... was... so... beautiful! ^_^ What a little movie with a lot of heart! This movie *deserves* more attention; we gotta increase the DVD sales, or iTunes, rentals of this film!Okay, so we all know the most popular Jesus movie is "ion of the Christ", but I think even THIS film is pretty wonderful rendition of what Christ is truly like! I even would promote this film to Mel Gibson to watch!And I can see it's only garnered enough ratings as much as if it were an episode of the TV series "Supernatural". It DESERVES much more recognition!I mean, WOW...what a powerful film, POWERFUL! I can't believe I missed out on this for several years!! I actually saw it through YouTube, but what it would've been like to see it in a huge screen in a church with hundreds of people, or see it in a regular theater... What I got was really, really good flick that touched me and made me feel good and wanting to be a better person. It is not a heavy-action flick; just a thought-provoking heart-felt movie that is well-worth the time.I wanted to show it to my family, but a lot of them seem quite spontaneously & unnecessarily oversensitive about movies on YouTube and "stealing" and "copyright" at the moment, making the situation mooch more complicated than it really is. So much so it's really gotten aggravating & depressing. The Internet is free! YouTube is free! If an underrated Christian film is on it, hurrah! Praise be to God through the uses of the Internet we can spread this amazing information around!In hindsight of the film, many important questions, many important issues, many important misunderstandings, and much important encouragement was addressed in this motion picture, and congrats to Bruce Marchiano for doing an AMAZING JOB being the same joyous, earthy, smiley, understanding and personal Jesus even with a sense of humor, just like he was in the "Visual Bible: The Gospel of Matthew" series (which we still own on VHS too), the one I saw growing up. Yes, and I believe there's reason for that interpretation, because Christ *is* a personal God, all about relationship, not religion. Jesus came not so people would be more "religious", but that they may have LIFE!And I like how in the story's context of how Jesus is just a simple cook & waiter in a small diner, even in the middle of nowhere, and is not someone "begging for attention" - that's truly an amazing way of how "personal" of a God He truly is. He's not all LIGHTS, CAMERAS, SPOTLIGHT, PAPARAZZI, HYPE, HYSTERIA, etc. No, He doesn't need any of that, nor should we. If it's really our own ion and zeal to work hard for those sorts of things, so be it. But it is only temporary; having riches and eternal life with Christ in Heaven, and wanting to share that great news with everyone else around you is something MUCH more worth of eternal value.This film is not only a truly ANOINTED one, but also a *much-needed* one in this day and age of a corrupted Hollywood, and a truly ANOINTED one at that! :-)And I give this movie credit for introducing me to wrestling champion "Sting" (Steve Borden) - he did a really good job, playing the complex, arrogant, prideful businessman. Though, maybe I would have preferred either Stephen Baldwin or Jensen Ackles to play him (who are ALSO Christian actors) - since maybe I think their popularity would've bumped up this movie's hype a bit more.However, if there is a real down side to this movie, I would say I wish we could've seen a few more miracles done by Jesus (I just wanted to see more); at the ending I was kind of wanting Melissa to go back and give Jesus a BIG HUG before they all left the diner (kinda like one of the Ten Lepers in the Bible who ed). I mean, the only person who really touched Jesus was Nick when he grabbed Him! Probably just been nice to give Jesus a NICE body gesture after that one.I also now wish this film had addressed and dealt with the BLASPHEMY issue, because that is one hallmark of Hollywood movies that REALLY ticks me off. And if I was one of the collaborative script writers on the movie, I would've probably added another line to that scene where Jesus is talking about "People who steal" and "people who hop from bed to bed," being which, "They use My Name in vain when I Am the one who has given them life, and breath, and everything they have." I think that would've said a lot. But I digressHonestly I can say THANK YOU, David A. R. White, PureFlix, AND God, for creating this miracle of a film!10/10PS: Want to see another film that has the same concept about if Jesus dwelt amongst modern-day people?? See the film "Joshua" (2002)!

Christian Pompei the 3rd I rated this movie an honest 4. The only reason it has such a high score rate is because 90% of the Earth's population believe in God and more than 2 billion in Jesus. But if you're a atheist or agnostic you should skip this one because it's nothing more than a cinematographic summarization of the Bible, including the naive, child-appropriate story telling, fight between God and the devil and so one. Bad acting, bad directing, scripting, effects and everything related to cinematographic art is bad. The way the main character talks will remind you of a very ionate priest or pastor or Jehovah's Witnesses on a Sunday morning. The only thing I liked was the initial idea: a horror-like movie where you gather a bunch of people in a diner on a bad weather and things happen... but despite a classic film where people die in terrible pain and horror, this time only good and wonderful things take place. But besides that, there is no action, no story line, the characters are weak and flat, the ideas and philosophy are STRICTLY religious and the dialog disputes "don't stay in court". As an agnostic, I always like a good religious dispute but I was deeply disappointed this time. If you have one chance to face God what questions will you ask him? I have a bunch of them prepared and ready but non were heard in this film, nothing to upset the All Mighty, nothing to make the watcher think more than she/he should. If the biblical dialogs were more elevated and smart it would have made a good religious documentary. If you would take the whole religion idea out, it could have been a good movie.

lagudafuad Many a times we blessed with Christian movies that take you down a path of character change, showing you the strength of holding on to faith and never letting go.With movies like Facing the Giant and Fireproof, these movies touched the lives of many by setting for them examples in which they could follow but The Encounter is different. The movie just deals on remembrance, here is a movie that the main Character is Jesus himself (played by Bruce Marchiano) and all his is trying to do is to make people that he has always been with them and to make them understand that all that they have been facing in life was leading to this moment, where he will call them to live the darkness and come into the light.The movie does star Jaci Velasquez, who is a notable Pop and Gospel singer, I actually expected mediocrity from her but I have to say that her acting was quite good enough for me to respect and say that was not bad. Also in the movie is the wrestler Sting (Steve Borden), who has publicly declared that he is a Born Again Christian. Sting who has already had many acting experience his acting was in a way head over shoulders above everyone.But the Character that gets your smile is the man who played Jesus (Bruce Marchiano) he did a good job his smile was just beautiful.The movie plot is about 5 people all heading down a road way when a storm caused them all to divert and stay in a diner, where they met a man who claimed he was Jesus. His claim stood as he was able to tell each one intimate secret about them. The 5 people were: 1. Kayla, who is a runaway teenager that Hank refused to pick even after he heard a still small voice telling him to. 2. Hank, who is a God fearing Christian but he allows his wife to take control of his life and his marriage 3. Catherine, who is Hank's wife, she is a controlling lady that wants to leave Hank and chase after something she will never have 4. Melissa, who was heading to go see her boyfriend, hoping to receive a proposal, she too is a born again Christian like Hank and she obeyed the voice and picked up Kayla. 5. Nick, he is a self made millionaire who doesn't want to have anything to do with God.Like most Christian movies the antagonist is the devil. The movie did have some flaw in the cinematography area, but you do have to cut them some slack, as most Christian movie makers have to source for finances independently, but that is not saying that what is worth doing is not worth doing well. The cinematography is a low 4/10.What can I say, a good Christian movie to me is one which I am able to learn something from, here I learned that all sin has their root in pride and that God has placed in front of us the path of love and worship and the degree which we can experience this love is the degree in which we are willing to bend to his will.www.lagsreviews.com