Cert: 12A - warning some scene push this to a R-rated film
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Writers: Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel
Starring : Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Douglas Booth, Nick Nolte
Running time: 138 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: Shem playfully tackles Ila in the forest and kisses her passionately, his mouth working its way to a large scar on her belly, at which point she makes him stop. In a later scene, Ila runs to Shem and begins kissing him like crazy, hurriedly stripping off clothes. (The camera briefly spies skin and then moves away.)
The forms of Adam and Eve are seen, but they are glowing with light and no body parts can be distinguished. When Noah becomes drunk and passes out naked, he is seen from such a great distance that only the shape of his body can be seen. Naameh's draped top reveals part of her chest but no breast.
In the village, screaming girls and women are forcibly dragged along the ground, to be traded for food.
Violence & Gore:We repeatedly see a silhouette replay of Cain killing Abel with a rock. And at one juncture, the sequence morphs into warlike conflicts throughout the ages, with the killer and victim becoming soldiers from ancient to modern times. In ditches and valleys piles of dead bodies and/or skeletons are seen multiple times. We watch men pull down and kill the giant Watchers. A fiery cataclysm decimates a throng of warriors. Fire from heaven kills even more. People are bashed and stomped and trampled and stabbed and hacked and, of course, drowned.
Tubal-Cain kills Noah's father with a hatchet blow to the head, with blood-squirting results. Noah kills quite a few assailants (in self-defence). When hunters have shot an animal, Noah plucks the sharp projectile from the beast's bleeding side and uses it to fight the four men when they turn on him. Other animals have their throats cut or their guts grotesquely spilled. In a bloody marketplace, live animals are torn apart and eaten raw. Noah has visions of countless drowned humans and animals, and he walks on ground saturated with blood. A girl gets caught in an animal trap (metal points piercing her leg).
Noah comes to believe that God means to spare only "innocent" animals and end the human race entirely, explaining to his family, "We are all guilty." He instructs his family that once they arrive in a cleansed world, they are all to grow old and die without wives or additional children. Because he believes this, when Ila unexpectedly gets pregnant, Noah tells her that if the baby is a female (and thus a potential mother), he'll kill the infant as soon as she leaves the womb. We later see him raising a knife above the baby, though he relents and spares the child. Noah often stands as a fearsome figure, glowering with his unsheathed blade. In one scene, he allows a young woman to die by way of a trampling horde when he runs away in self-defence instead of stopping to help her.
Profanity: Damned" is uttered four times (but in context, the word is used correctly, with Tubal-Cain declaring that he'll be "damned" by the Creator no matter what he does. And because he does what he does, he is indeed damned.)
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Noah, believing he let the Creator down, gets rip-roaring drunk, spending what would seem to be days guzzling down wine. He finally passes out, naked (we see him from a distance, lying face down.) Methuselah gives Noah some tea that appears to be drugged, leading to a strange vision.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: The whole flood sequence and battle is intense.
The film is a psychological study of the character of Noah, and given what the character goes through, the entire film is emotionally and visually intense.
Noah has several apocalyptic visions, the first of which involves seeing himself drowning amongst thousands of screaming people. Very intense.
In one scene, Noah travels to a village to find wives for his sons. He finds them acting like animals; we see babies being taken away for food, and women are traded for livestock. An animal is thrown into a crowd and violently eviscerated alive. Noah then sees a vision of himself amongst the crowd, eating the animal's flesh raw and growling like an animal. This entire scene is extremely frightening and intense.
There is one very brief scene where Ham approaches Tubal-Cain, who has made his way onto the ark. Ham reaches down and Tubal-Cain grabs his hand. This is a bit of a jump scare. (It got a lot of people in my theatre.)
An innocent young woman is injured in an animal trap and then left to be trampled by a rampaging crowd.
After the flood begins, Noah and his family are inside the ark and all they can hear are the dying screams of thousands of drowning people. Very chilling.
The visions, screaming and the traumatic scene in the village begin to prey on Noah's mind and he becomes fanatical in his drive to do his Creator's work. He becomes convinced that the Creator intends to wipe out humanity entirely, and decides that he and his family will die when the flood ends. When he finds out that Ila is pregnant by Shem, he becomes furious, and later states that if the child is a girl, he will kill it. This part of the film is psychologically disturbing and intense. After Ila gives birth to twin girls, Noah almost murders them but changes his mind after seeing them and throws down his blade. He later explains that he could not kill them because he loved them. This entire scenario is extremely intense.
The Watchers emerge from the ground and rise up into giant rock creatures with glowing eyes. Although they later prove to be allies of Noah, some viewers may find them disturbing.
Story: A man is chosen by God to undertake a momentous mission of rescue before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world, that not only come a test of make man kind better or fall in to madness & become corrupted as the human race was before.
Likes : wow every review on this film by people say this is not the story of Noah or this was a big disappointment I'm guess these people are christian born or have something to hide because there was a clear message in this film i for one think this shows the real story of Noah & not what some bible Say's seeing that this was a fictional story in the first place that make sense in this world today.
This is a brilliant, compelling, challenging, thought-provoking, enjoyable film.it holds no punches in tell the full story that christian church complete hide, if your offended by this film then you clear have seen yourself on one side or he other. It's emotional at several points that bring a tear to your eyes. It provoked lively discussion with people because its basically saying all those that crave power,greed & do evil things, try to control people through fear are corrupted & the descendants of Cain.
The film takes utterly seriously the Judeo-Christian belief in God, God's relationship with creation, and the faith assertions of the Genesis stories of early human civilization tell the true story that has always been hide because the 3rd son of Adam & eve is never mentioned Seth.
Seth descendants are know as spiritualism people that will not given in to corruption or power, they take care of the people around them & every-living creature on this planet, it wasn't until Cain evil corruption in this world, this world because evil, but there are still descendants of Seth in this world willing to save the world of this evil.
This film basically is saying god gave the world a gift of life, it was Adam that gave in to temptation & created evil that created the corruption in the world upon seeing this the first angels of light defied the rules of interfering try to help the human race build but the corruption corrupted them they were dammed by god to live on earth as watchers, until such time a Seth descendant will come along to save the Innocent & the corrupt, evil power driven people will die in the end of the world, so live can be restarted & done right.
I see this film has no lies in contradiction to Genesis 6-9, and that's the only thing that matters: remember, "the one who is not against me is for me." Yes, folks, the "rock monsters" you've heard about…clearly a wonderfully creative attempt to render fallen angels make sense of the delightfully enigmatic "Nephilim" of Genesis 6 and Numbers 13.
One voiced by real-life "rock-monster" Nick Nolte brilliant done as they all had their own character's, There is also the sense of a sort of living Biblical exegesis on screen: the touching scenes of Noah his family representing something of the hope God had for what humans race was meant to be, and conversely, the scenes of Tubal-Cain's self-centered, destructive, broken humanity, played brilliantly by Ray Winstone
Jennifer Connelly as Noah's wife is crucial in this film as she was a grounded person in Noah life to show him a way not to become corrupted, she was fantastic in this film. Emma Watson great performance as a young woman whose change in destiny serves as an object lesson in the importance of women's roles in a future of man kind after the flood.
There is at one point of this film you get a scene, relatively brief and experienced from Noah's viewpoint of how far the human race as fallen in human savagery and violence in a society hopelessly broken down, that packs the punch of any horror film out, that personally qualifies as a way to visualize Hell on earth.
Russell crowes performance as Noah was nothing short of brilliance, the emotions, stress the worries of defending his family & trying not to fail god plan with the one scene where he try's to talk to god for an answer that acting right there is completely why Russell crowe is one of thee best actors of all time.This is a film i highly recommend you watch.
Dislikes : just a little slow, the pace of the film could of been a bit faster.
Overall : Brilliant back story of Adam & eve three son's, great c.g.i scenes some of the best acting ive seen in a while.
Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 9.5 out of 10 for story-line/ theme.
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