Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) by Markt2014 — 26 Dec 2014

Ridley Scott basically took the fairy tale and gave it a touch of realism. No wonder religious majority hates it. It showed that movie critique in general is subjective as I always argued. They're not criticizing the movie, but the Atheistic approach and this is why 4.4 is not really the score of the actually movie here.

On the other hand, the fact that the film topped the box office during its opening weekend with $24.5 million shows that mass opinion of religious zealots is completely irrelevant. The more they hate something, the better it actually is. And boy, it definitely is. The film is MAGNIFICENT!

This is why I love Ridley Scott. He doesn't let public opinion influence his work.

The film is probably the most realistic portrayal of bible event I've seen so far. People argue that it should have stayed literally true to the bible. But how can you stay literally true to something that's not even true to itself? Our bible is completely different to the original bible. It was changed and revised countless of times through centuries.

Events that happened in Bible are described as god's deeds only because people couldn't explain them in any other way at the time. Just as cavemen before them thought the stars were small spirits floating above. That doesn't mean we should turn the stars into divine fairies when filming the stone age today.

I give this film clean 10 to balance the bias. Else I would give it 8. Definitely worth watching.