Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) by Landonhagloch — 29 Dec 2014

A religious story that is made into a non-religious movie imagine that. The epic story that has endured thousands of years is essentially Gods wrath being brought against slave owners. Sure Hollywood can ignore the religion of the Hebrews and reduce God to Moses' imagination after hitting his head on a rock. But the ONE thing, the absolute ONE thing people go to see when someone makes a story about the Exodus is seeing hail and fire rain down on the slave owners.

In the end the movie reduces a religious story about God's wrath to mental illness and the 10 plagues of Egypt to a series of coincidences.

It was clear the director did not understand the God of the Old Testament and the 10 plagues was like watching my dog play piano. By the end of the movie I sympathized more with the Egyptians than the enslaved Hebrews.

If you want to see a movie about the Exodus go get the 1998 Dreamworks movie Prince of Egypt it trumps this movie with ease.