Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) by Dan S — 01 May 2015

A flawed though ambitious adaptation of the story of Moses (Christian Bale) and Ramses (Joel Edgerton), and how they begun as basically brothers, but how God's will propels one to fight for the freedom of his people, and the other for the survival of his kingdom.

While far from director Ridley Scott's best work (that belongs to "Alien" and "Black Hawk Down"), this is certainly a decent admission into his filmography. Sure, there are some gaps in the storyline (to be fair, it is a tough one to fit in under a three hour frame) and the middle section is slow-paced given the nature of the development of the story, but ultimately this movie is not bad by any means.

This is a better realized version of a Biblical story than "Noah" was, and even though the film has problems (God being portrayed as a little boy is a big error), the mere scope and look of the picture and the time it takes place is fascinating, even if in the end it does not earn an automatic recommendation.