A nice Biblical tale but on a very low quality dvd. Collins is great -- in Essence it's a "Spaghetti Bible Story".
I remember seeing this on TV many years ago. Frankly it's not a very well done version of what should be an epic Biblical tale. It reminds one of the &#34;Spaghetti Westerns&#34; only this is a &#34;Spaghetti Bible story&#34;. Egan is okay as Xerxes (Ahasuerus) and Joan Collins is beautiful and does a great job as Esther.  I agree with an earlier comment that says they think it's a bootlegged copy--the quality IS that bad! I had segments where you could see they were talking--but no sound. I sort of grew concerned when I noted that as the dvd started up--there were NO dire warnings by the FBI and Interpol about copying any of it... it went straight to a picture like on the cover with one word under it:  &#34;PLAY&#34;.  No features, no captions, and not much quality. Okay, I still gave it two, because it's the only copy I could find of a Biblical story I enjoyed. Yes Hollywood does a LOT of its usual playing around with the facts. (Ahasuerus/Xerxes) was NOT the Persian king who fought Alexander--that was Darius III. But the &#34;Biblical parts are basically there.You have Mordecai, and you have &#34;The King&#34; whose heart she stole, and you have Haman, the despicable whom you love to hate from start to finish. All in all the elements of a decent story are there, but a lot of the actors and actresses left a lot to be desired; and the quality of the picture was borderline awful.