Revival! (2019)

With an impressive cast, including Harry Lennix, Chaka Khan, and Dawnn Lewis, I had gone into this telling of Jesus’s last days from the Gospel of John expecting a gospel music version of Jesus Christ Superstar. In some ways it is more and others much less. It obviously has a much lower budget than the average film I watch, but they attempt to do a whole lot with that budget combining a whole bunch of styles from outdoor live action shots to meta stage renditions to CGI heavy scenes in between. Some of these worked better than others. I preferred the live action straight tellings more than the more experimental scenes, but mostly I really loved the music throughout. Some film versions of Bible stories are told to reach a mixed-background audience, but this feels firmly as if it were made solely for Christians.