"The Two Popes" is really three movies: a behind-the-scenes tale of Vatican politics, a mini-biopic about the current pontiff, and a two-man study of friendship, rivalry and major British acting. The first, though intriguing, is more puzzling than illuminating. The Pope and a Jesuit cardinal walk into a park.
The Two Popes is an atypical film, an interesting exercise walking between the biopic, drama and social, political and religious criticism with a slight touch of humor. The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. The Two Popes movie reviews & Metacritic score: Behind Vatican walls, the traditionalist Pope Benedict (Anthony Hopkins) and the reformist future Pope Franci.
The Two Popes has two excellent pope performances from Hopkins and Pryce, as well as a sharp screenplay. It is surprisingly unconventional in style and. Pope Francis is an extraordinarily humble man who walks the walk and acts with integrity. Both he and Pope Benedict try to make decisions to affect the greater good, but their implementation of that is different. Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must User Reviews. I love it, and I'm an atheist.
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You see, this is a movie about two old guys, that believe in something I don't. The whole thing is pretty much just the two of them waking (slowly) and talking. The essence of the mismatched buddy movie genre is a clash of personalities and ideologies.
A mutual antipathy gives way to grudging respect, eventually warming into friendship. Given how much of the film is taken up by two elderly men politely wrestling with theology, it's unexpectedly entertaining stuff. The movie is about Bergoglio contemplating retirement but instead being summoned to see Pope Benedict in the Vatican. If the diametrically different leaders in "The Two Popes" can find common ground, surely there's hope for us all.