smsudusinghe This was made from a great concept. A concept which will blow your mind. The Man from Earth means the creator of mankind. not the God. the reason for human existence. Atheists all around the world will love this film. The whole movie is about just a discussion between a group of university lecturers. The budget is only 200,000$, I think it's just for the payment of the actors. The best low budget movie I've ever seen. The Man from Earth will blow your mind for sure. Trust me.

pinkled5 Here are just a few examples of the many, many, factual errors which interfered with my enjoyment of this movie:1) No one thought the earth was flat in Columbus' day. Ancient Greeks had actually calculated, with surprising accuracy, the circumference of the earth According to historian Jeffrey Burton Russell, "no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat."2) The body does not renew/replace all its cells every 7 years. That is a myth and a misconception. Although its true that the lining of the stomach is renewed every few days, other parts can take a decade or more to renew and some parts stay with us from birth to death.3) There are not different versions of the Bible. This is another misconception. There are, however, many different translations, which is different. For example, if you ask two experts to translate a Greek passage (without conferring with one another) you'll get two unique translations, but they'll both mirror the original Greek passage.This could have been an interesting film, but early on I could not suspend my disbelief and the only way to view this film is from the perspective that it takes place in an alternate universe where our knowledge and facts don't exist. It is possible that this script writer lives in the world he created, as do many people, a world where knowledge and facts are supplanted by ignorance and bias.

stratus_phere I loved this story. I loved the idea of someone who is thousands of years old and has been around since stone age times. He knows so much and has seen so much. As a lover of history, this is a great idea with so much potential.The problem came when the writers really started stretching it. Here is a spoiler, so don't read more if you don't want to know. He said that he was Jesus. I mean, really? That's so cliched and unlikely. It really ruined the story. I actually let out an audible groan, and was like, "Oh, give me a break."They could have done so much more, describing the history of the world through fresh eyes. And yet they went down that path. It's a shame because I love the idea of this. Maybe someone will come along and remake this in a good way.

golfers_r_me I don't know about you, but the first thing I would do if I meet a 14,000 y/o man is blast him in the face with a shotgun to see if he'd live. Or, at the very least, I'd jump on his back to experience his cat like reflexes. Because one thing I've always know about cavemen is that they are damn fast and damn strong. Like when I was a kid and I knew that He-Man really could run at near the speed of light because of all those muscles.We are hit like a Mack truck with the dumbest scene of the movie a mere three minutes in: we see him tossing a $10,000,000 Van Gogh into the back of his truck like it's a trash bag of clothes being donated to Goodwill. Logically, we'd assume that he ages normally, but at a very slow rate, so that 400 yrs to us would only be one yr to him. He'd be an infant for like 500 yrs. This isn't what happened, tho. We are told he ages normally to the age of 42 then, inexplicably, he just stops aging. Why? Because of the delicious water, nutritious food, and sweet mountain air. Ummm...I always thought that prehistoric man drank swamp water, scavenged for food, and burned everything in sight for warmth. Not exactly holistic living. Then, like the last car in a pile up, we discover that he is indeed still fertile after all these yrs and has produced a child, who just so happens to be in this very room. We are then treated to the corniest scene in cinematic history: upon learning that this man is his father he clutches at his chest and dies (because this is how heart attacks work, you die instantaneously). Why did he believe him so assuredly? Because like every TV show from my childhood, the simplest way to test somebody's authenticity is to query them on the name of your family dog.I actually thought the whole Jesus thing was an interesting concept, it was the reaction of the ppl around him that was stupid. If had just discovered I had been banging Cleopatra I wouldn't stop grinning for a week. His gf, tho? Apparently she has stage 10 autism because she has what amounts to a total non-reaction. The drama between them is that he has broken up with her. The movie closes with Oldman and his detached gf driving off into the darkness. Are these two love birds going to make it work? Or, is he just giving her a lift to the nearest bus stop?Thought provoking indeed.