Robert Foxworth is equally up to the challenge of his role as Simon Peter. Anthony Hopkins merits praise for delivering a performance that is equal parts genuine, passionate, and representative of how faith in Salvation will turn anyone (including a murderer of the new Jewish sect) away from a lifetime of sin thanks to our Heavenly God. It is a faithful presentation of Peter and Paul's lives as Apostles of Jesus Christ, and captures the mood and tensions of Jerusalem and Rome. This miniseries is a must-see for everyone (that includes unbelievers). Paul's other journeys are dramatized and his final days seem to drag out the movie, but the performances are top notch! Peter eventually is pursuaded, and after about 30 years of doing little, agrees with Paul's arguments.
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The arguments he makes to Peter, is that salvation is by faith, that Jesus plus nothing is the key to salvation, and that works or previous Jewish religious practices are now irrelevant. His argument is that Jesus came to save all-Jew and Gentile alike, and he has been travelling to Greece and Asia Minor making large numbers of converts. Paul meets with Peter, who has not left the general area of Jerusalem to discuss this problem. In the book of Galatians in the New Testament, Paul is revisiting churches he started which have come under the influence of Judiazers who say that Christians must be Jews, and that Gentiles must be circumsized.
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The movie tells the story of how and what the disciples did following the Resurrection. Paul is obviously more passionate and the story tends to give him more screen time.
Anthony Hopkins as Paul and Robert Foxworth as Peter are fabulous in their acting. This is a great movie for those who want to understand the early decades of the Christian church. Still I think Christians will like it and nonbelievers will find it entertaining and factual in terms of the accounts in Scripture. Had this been done thirty years earlier, Peter and Paul would have had far more acclaim than it got. The direction is good, the script is literate without some of the banal lines associated with DeMille productions.
Luke and John Rhys Davies and Herbert Lom as Paul's traveling companions Silas and Barnabas at different points of his life. You will find some other good performances in Jose Ferrer as Rabbi Gamaliel teacher of Paul who thought that we ought to give the new followers of Jesus a hearing, Raymond Burr as Herod Aggripa, Jon Finch as a worldly St. Anthony Hopkins combines the intellect with the personal magnetism that the man had to have in order to get as many folks as he did to listen and heed. Whatever one's view of Christianity is, for better or worse Paul's probably the guy who did the most to spread it. His travels are recorded in the names of the various books of the New Testament, his letters of commission and instruction to the various churches he founded. Undaunted Paul goes out among all various and sundry folks spreading the word. Peter was caught between a rock and a hard place on the issue. Others of the early Christians wanted to do the work of evangelizing strictly amongst the Jews. Paul before Peter took the commandment seriously about the new faith being universal. He becomes their champion and their most eloquent spokesperson.
The bolt of lightning that knocked him off his ride and blinded him and his later restoration to sight changed him 180 degrees. To mark his change of mind about this group, Saul changed his name to Paul and his forcible conversion on the road to Damascus is shown here in detail. Anthony Hopkins is the scholarly Saul of Tarsus, rabbi who was charged with the apprehension and elimination of this Jewish sect worshiping a carpenter who allegedly rose from the dead. Peter, who also looks like a man who worked outdoors and with his hands. Robert Foxworth is a rugged Peter, along the lines of Finlay Currie and Howard Keel previous portrayers of St. This film, Peter and Paul, is based on their contributions in spreading the gospel.
Without the contributions of Peter and Paul to the early Christian church it might very well have gone on to be an obscure offshoot of Judaism and Jesus might have died a lonely and forgotten death.
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