Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

Sadly Over-hyped

Did you people see the same film I saw?

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

I love Ridley Scott and his vision. A big production that lost elements of the story. Mistaken juxtaposition, bits and pieces felt passionate, as is Mr Scott's usual storytelling. Mismatched, plenty of holes, character development fail. The actors weren't genuine to their roles. Felt all over the place. My reveiw pretty much sums up my discombobulated view, broken. Was it the way it was edited? Love Christian Bale for all of his other roles. Perhaps Moses would have been better cast with someone unknown. Or lesser known. Just a thought.

Ridley Scott completely went off the actual story in creating this movie that does not even come close to the story in scriptures. If you are looking for a movie that tells the story as told in scripture this is not it.

The writers took was one of the most recognized and repeated stories in the Bible and totally butchered it. There were so many egregious things in this film is hard to know where to start. The legs were presented out of order and totally out of context. Perhaps the most ridiculous and disturbing part of the film was substituting a young child for the Burning Bush, a.k.a. the voice of God, who has a running conversation with Moses which made no sense whatsoever.It is one thing to take a few artistic liberties. In this epic disaster, they added events that never existed anywhere in any retelling of the Exodus story such as a group of Hebrew resistance fighters which Moses trained himself.The acting was awful and the dialogue was even worse. The actor who played Ramses could have mailed in his performance. It was the most underwhelming portrayal of a central character in the story that I had ever seen. At least Christian Bale can act when he has to. However, the only thing that this movie got correct about Moses was the retelling of his birth and how he was placed in a basket and sent downstream on the River Nile to the Pharaoh's Palace, etc.. Everything else that was important to the story of Moses was left out such as the staff he carried with him at all times and replaced it with the gold Egyptian sword that he had received as an adopted son of Pharaoh.Do yourself a favor and "pass over" this film.

I've read the bible narrative and other books that parallel the biblical account and I was hoping to see the updated modern version of the 1965 movie The 10 Commandments. But that was soon dashed to the ground as Ridley Scott seemed to make great effort to corrupt the story with additions so wildly off based like depicting God as an angry vindictive child. I was almost shocked that kept the plagues in the movie or that the Hebrews were even let go by Ramses. Yeah it's one of those type of movies that takes such creative freedom with the story that the True account known by so many is lost sight of. An opportunity was missed by Mr.Scott to make a great classic if he just stayed with the story as told in scripture. I would never recommend anyone waste 2 hrs of their life sitting and watching this story cause not only has it been falsified but the acting in it is bland and sadly one dimensional.