Muhammad The Messenger of God Movie Review

 

An epic about the birth of Islam is the biggest-budgeted Iranian film to date.

Part one of a projected trilogy on Islam’s founding prophet, Muhammad: The Messenger of God arrives not as an inspired Quranic vision, but an awkward throwback to biblical-historical epics of the studio era. Writer-director Majid Majidi’s passion project focuses on Muhammad’s childhood and adolescence, and was seven years in the making, two of them spent in production and post. Yet despite the poetic visuals of veteran cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, and notwithstanding an occasionally affecting moment, the three-hour feature is rarely involving as it plods through musty movie territory in a quest for epic heights.

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