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The first time Ridley Scott let slip that he was planning a new movie epic about Moses, he said what interested him about the Biblical figure “isn’t the big stuff that everybody knows.”
However, as trailers for the film – titled Exodus: Gods and Kings – began to hit the scene, it quickly became obvious this movie isn’t so much the “untold story” of Moses (played here by Christian Bale); it’s more just The Ten Commandments, redone with modern tentpole values, actors, and the self-seriousness of Scott’s previous historical epics (Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood, and so on). And unlike when Cecil B. DeMille made his Biblical film adaptations in the 20th century, filmgoers aren’t so accepting of things like, say, white-washing casting nowadays.
Is Exodus: Gods and Kings a good movie from Ridley Scott, when you sidestep the complaints about its derivative narrative and/or casting selections? Have a look through the following excerpts from the first wave of reviews (click the corresponding link for the full review), and see what critics are saying thus far.
The overall response to Exodus: Gods and Kings so far is, well, pretty much par the course for Ridley Scott’s recent output as a director. The screenplay written by Bill Collage and Adam Cooper (Tower Heist), Jeffrey Caine (The Constant Gardener), and Oscar-winner Steve Zaillian (who previously collaborated with Scott on Hannibal and American Gangster) may be a more traditional – and less bonkers - Biblical retelling than Darren Aronofsky’s Noah script, but it also appears to lack the personality of the latter.
However, as trailers for the film – titled Exodus: Gods and Kings – began to hit the scene, it quickly became obvious this movie isn’t so much the “untold story” of Moses (played here by Christian Bale); it’s more just The Ten Commandments, redone with modern tentpole values, actors, and the self-seriousness of Scott’s previous historical epics (Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood, and so on). And unlike when Cecil B. DeMille made his Biblical film adaptations in the 20th century, filmgoers aren’t so accepting of things like, say, white-washing casting nowadays.
Is Exodus: Gods and Kings a good movie from Ridley Scott, when you sidestep the complaints about its derivative narrative and/or casting selections? Have a look through the following excerpts from the first wave of reviews (click the corresponding link for the full review), and see what critics are saying thus far.
Exodus: Gods and Kings Move Reviews
The overall response to Exodus: Gods and Kings so far is, well, pretty much par the course for Ridley Scott’s recent output as a director. The screenplay written by Bill Collage and Adam Cooper (Tower Heist), Jeffrey Caine (The Constant Gardener), and Oscar-winner Steve Zaillian (who previously collaborated with Scott on Hannibal and American Gangster) may be a more traditional – and less bonkers - Biblical retelling than Darren Aronofsky’s Noah script, but it also appears to lack the personality of the latter.
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