One Night with the King

2006

Action / Biography / Drama / History / Romance

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 17% · 24 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 8327 8.3K

based on novel or book persia queen bible biography esther

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Plot summary

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.

Director

Michael O. Sajbel Photo
Michael O. Sajbel

Top cast

John Noble Photo
John Noble as Prince Admantha
Tiffany Dupont Photo
Tiffany Dupont as Hadassah / Esther
James Callis Photo
James Callis as Haman, the Agagite
John Rhys-Davies Photo
John Rhys-Davies as Mordecai
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
1.1 GB
1280*534
English 2.0
PG
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 2 min
Seeds 5
2.26 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
PG
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 2 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 5 / 10

I only watched this because I thought the

I only watched this because I thought the poster looked a bit like the cover of a Christian Jacq novel. Sadly, despite a pretty stellar cast on paper, this is a really lacklustre biblical tale that is epic only in it's failure to catch fire at any stage. Peter O'Toole makes the briefest possible appearance as the prophet Samuel discovering that a captured Jewish girl has escaped and that she is with child... Spool on several years and we discover that she had a child, and that King Xerxes of Persia is looking for a new bride. Might history be about to tie these two themes together? Well what do you think? It's a strong biblical story this - you might recall Joan Collins did a version in 1960 with Richard Egan - but this is all style over substance with way too much emphasis on the grand look of the film and nowhere near enough effort on the shocking casting of Luke Goss (Xerxes) and the underwhelming Tiffany Dupont as the girl destined to secure the future of her people. Perhaps Omar Sharif was taking a break from the poker table, but there can be little excuse for the hammy effort of an over-the-top John Rhys-Davies nor the one-gear only John Noble as this story develops, completely devoid of passion or pace. The screenplay seems determined to use an adaptation from a children's book of (verbose) bible stories and in the end it all just fails to deliver. It ends with a power balled "...One night with a king... changes everything..." Even Bros didn't stoop to rhymes quite that complicated. Enough said!
Reviewed by eofa1204 6 / 10

Good but not Great

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