![]() The film opens on a visually stunning shot of a bleak landscape as the rising sun peaks over the horizon and reveals a horseman charging through the desert. Yesterday I sat anxiously in my seat at Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills to see the long awaited Muhammad: Messenger of God by Iranian director Majid Majidi. I considered the film’s director, Moustapha Akkad, a hero for what he had accomplished in making the film in Hollywood but felt it was a bit embarrassing that no one had attempted to tell this story in motion picture since 1977. I had an attachment to the film as a teenager and saw it as validation that the story of the Prophet Muhammad was a powerful and universal underdog story. I bootlegged the double VHS of the film from my local video store in Arizona and upgraded to the double DVD a few years later when I found it in the foreign film section of a Suncoast Video (RIP). I was 13 when I saw the 1977 film The Message. ![]() Film Review | Muhammad: The Messenger of God ![]()
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