The Jesus Revolution Remembered – Crisis Magazine

The Jesus Revolution had all the elements of something I’d love: Jesus; the marvelously gifted Jonathan Roumie; the beautiful beaches of southern California; and redemption. Recipe for success; but it left me strangely unaffected. 

The depth test of any movie is how long it takes up residence in your mind afterward. Three days later, The Jesus Revolution is still rattling around in my brainpan, so it passes the test. 

I just wonder why I didn’t like it more. It had all the elements of something I’d love: Jesus; the marvelously gifted Jonathan Roumie of The Chosen (plus a cameo appearance by Paras Patel, everyone’s favorite obsessive-compulsive apostle from the same series); the beautiful beaches of southern California; and redemption. Recipe for success; but it left me strangely unaffected. 

For me, Roumie was worth the price of admission all on his own. I was loathe to see him play anyone other than Jesus because I thought it would ruin The Chosen for me, but it did the opposite. Roumie has an uncanny ability to make love visible. You can see love happening in his gaze on lost souls, as both a very human evangelist in this movie, and as the Great Evangelist in The Chosen. Roumie is better even than Jim Caviezel at personifying love onscreen (but Caviezel wins hands-down at suffering).

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The Jesus Revolution Remembered – Crisis Magazine