Mary (2024)

I'll admit, the idea of a film about Mary and Joseph on the fun from Herod's troops sounded sort of intriguing to me. There is about 10 minutes of that near the end. The rest of Director Caruso's epic is a lot of boring cliched Sunday School regurgitations. There might be a movie in that idea somewhere but this isn't it. 

Hopkins is a legend but for every The Father or Silence of the Lambs he also has a lot of scenery chewing roles. Mostly his Herod falls into the latter. A few times I felt like there were glimpses of what makes this 2 time Oscar winner so compelling on screen. But mostly it was buried under a lot of overacting.  

Caruso doesn't have a filmography that inspires much but perhaps I was hoping there would be something interesting going on here. Unfortunately there really wasn't anything that didn't feel like an amateur passion play. 

Mary

Starring: Noa Cohen, Anthony Hopkins

Director: DJ Caruso

Writer: Timothy Michael Hayes