The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

There’s some very silly casting in TLToC. There’s a white Jesus, a ginger Judas from NY and a Rock Star Pontius from Blighty; it’s laughable. The music is similarly ill-fitting most of the time, but the screenplay by Paul Schrader, adapted from Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel, is so good in the first half that I was able to keep my chuckles in check and enjoy the show.
It presents Jesus as a man with hopes, fears and doubts, like any other man would have in his position. His real strength comes from his response to those states of being, not from something wholly supernatural.
The part that got many Christians' cotton undies in a twist is during one of Marty’s slips and is best forgotten. If they’d put it into context before throwing stones they might have understood that.

3½ women called Mary out of 5