Review of Ben-Hur (2016) by Nico B — 19 Aug 2016

While the film has its moments of thrilling action and delivers a decent performance by Morgan Freeman, Ben-Hur lacks the thought-provoking characters and gripping storytelling of earlier takes on the story, and thus resulting in another choppy and standard biblical epic with little new added to it, and what was once a spellbinding visual and story extravaganza is now a tiresome bore!