Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

cmcastl Ridley Scott has never made a bad looking film but he has seldom made an excellent one. Several reasons, including: * He seems incapable of discriminating between a bad script and a good script. * He is dependent upon the casting.But this was a film worth watching. It caught the majesty, simultaneously barbaric and spiritual, of its Biblical source.The script was variable but had its moments.But what let this film down was the total miscasting of Christian Bale who showed no depth in the role of Moses, at all. Charlton Heston was more nuanced in the Ten Commandments and Charlton Heston was not noted of being a nuancing actor! But the film, for those of us interested in the Bible, was still worth watching for its production values, some powerfully mystic moments, such as the falling star precipitating the parting of the Red Sea, and the utterly gorgeous Maria Valverde as Moses' wife Zipporah.

superangelofglory Bad acting, bad lines and no emotion. Now I know why Egypt banned this movie: to save the time and money of Egyptians

beorhouse For the plusses: The Creator is shown to be the true God who is listened to while the gods worshiped by the Egyptians are deaf to their cries for help. Too, the CGI effects are fantastic to see and very realistic. For the negatives: primarily, the story does not follow the written record in the Bible. It does not matter whether you believe that written record is historical or not. You may believe it is purely fictional. Your opinion one way or another is insignificant. The fact is that we have four very ancient documents--the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy--that have inspired a number of films about Moses, and for this film those documents seem to have only been studied cursorily while the imaginations of the writer and director--and maybe even the actors themselves--were allowed to go off on tangents. Why not tell the story as it appears in the documents? Not freaky enough? Moses not tough-guy enough? Moses wasn't a tough guy. He was, and I paraphrase from the documents, the most humble man to ever walk to earth, speaking with God as a friend would speak with another friend. Where's his son's foreskin being smeared all over his feet by his wife Zipporah? Too graphic for a wide audience, I suppose. Why does his brother Aaron just stand there and not do what he is traditionally supposed to do, which is to speak for Moses whenever the latter has anything at all to say? I guess that would have taken the spotlight too far away from Bale. Where's Moses' powerful staff that can part waters and make the land between dry enough to walk across or coax much- needed water from a rock or turn into a serpent-swallowing serpent? Oh, I see. The snake-eating part of the story couldn't be explained as a natural occurrence like most of the plagues are. Maybe there was a natural chain reaction for the plagues. Very possible. Until, of course, we get to the blackness that covered Egypt when the Angel of the Lord (not seen in the film) killed all of the firstborn children and livestock of the families that did not cover their door-posts with the blood of unblemished lambs. Then the natural explanations sort of fall apart. Anyway, you see my point. There was some good stuff, but most of it was action film garbage. Bale plays a better Batman than a historical Hebrew leader who is seen by most Jews as a precursor to their idea of the Messiah and by all Christians as a primary archetype of Y'shua (Jesus) the Messiah. This is not to say that Charlton Heston was ever a great anything that he played, but at least Cecil B. DeMille made an attempt to follow the received documents. I give this one a 2 out of 10, but only because of the really great CGI effects. Guess that might show you in yet another way what I believe is the most important part of telling any story received from our ancestors and ancients.

Artur Machado Directed by Ridley Scott and with Christian Bale in the role of Moses, this film recounts the story of the Hebrews' exodus from Egypt from a more realistic and less supernatural point of view, that is, the miracles described in the Bible are events of Nature, yet it fails in this "realism" when it comes to the last plague, the death of the Egyptian' first-borns (only a supernatural black cloud / shadow covering the city at night and at the next morning the infants are dead just like that - there goes the realism!). It's full of historical and biblical errors - History and Scriptures are two different things conflicting many times, so it would be best to stay truthful to the story' original source, but no... (I won't go on detail on this 'cause that would take a book, not a review given the tremendous amount of underlying issues pertaining this theme "History vs Scripture and its rewriting, voluntary or not") Moreover, this movie does not transmit any emotion so soulless it is and fails on everything (everything!!!) that could make this an epic. Just nice scenarios and visual effects were never guaranty of a good movie.