Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) by Kriebelr — 14 Dec 2014

Anyone who regularly attended Sunday school as a child will know the story of Moses. The Jews have been enslaved for hundreds of years, Moses is raised in the Pharaoh's household and eventually leads the Jews to freedom after blood, boils, frogs and locusts. The Biblical account has a clear villain in the Pharaoh and clear hero in Moses. The interesting twist in this telling has a Pharaoh that you can sympathize with and a Moses that is more conflicted and doubting than one might expect.

The problem is that the movie is bogged down by odd pacing, questionable casting, silly action sequences and melodrama. I found myself rolling my eyes on more than one occasion.