Cert: 12A cert, it should of been a 15 cert due to some scene
Director: Ridley Scott
Screen writer:
Starring: Christian Bale , Joel Edgerton , John Turturro , Aaron Paul , Ben Mendelsohn , María Valverde , Sigourney Weaver , Ben Kingsley , Hiam Abbass , Isaac Andrews , Ewen Bremner , Indira Varma , Golshifteh Farahani , Ghassan Massoud , Tara Fitzgerald , Dar Salim , Andrew Tarbet , Ken Bones, Philip Arditti , Hal Hewetson , Christopher Sciueref
Running time: 150 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: Some hugging, kissing between Moses and his wife.
Violence & Gore: A battle sequence early on shows many die and in combat, some blood and wounds are seen.
A slave is being punished for misbehaviour. He is being whipped and his back is full of bloody wounds.
Ramses threatens to cut off the hand of a woman unless she confesses to be Moses's sister. When she does not confess, he swings his sword to cut off her arm but is stopped just in time by Moses.
Two men attack Moses and he fights against them and kills them by stabbing them.
The plagues over Egypt are often quite graphic and violent, boils and sores are seen, dead animals, blood water, crocodiles, a violent hail storm, frogs, flies, locusts and the death of the Egyptian first born sons.
In an attempt to make the slaves give up Moses to him, Ramses hangs a family of three in public, and threatens to hang one family every day. In several later scenes some more hangings are shown.
The boils caused by the flies and locusts on the faces of the Egyptians appear scary.
Horses and cattle suddenly fall down dead, spitting blood from their nostrils.
One of Ramses's generals falls off his chariot and is overrun by the chariot following him. No blood is shown though.
Profanity: None.
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking:Wine is consumed
Frightening/Intense Scenes: Curtain scene are border line 18 cert & maybe disturb some viewers
Story: Epic adventure Exodus: Gods and Kings is the story of one man's daring courage to take on the might of an empire. Using state of the art visual effects and 3D immersion, Scott brings new life to the story of the defiant leader Moses as he rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
Likes : One this Thing this film gives is outstanding special effects cinematography and visual effects are just brilliant done, the action fights sequence's are well done, Christian bale put a great performance but sadly nothing really special & Joel Edgerton performance as Ramses is great, for a Ridley Scott film its not bad.
Many should know this story is a remake of The Ten Commandments Directed by Cecil B. DeMille in 1956 which tells the tale of Hebrew slaves & the Egyptian Pharaoh, mosses told by god to free he slaves with his power, by the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses refuse's bringing the down fall of his kingdom, this story is told in a similar way just in a different more realistic way probably why this film has got some much flack from people in religious groups.
This is a pretty slow paced film but it dose have it moments of storytelling but sadly its not without it flaws, this coming from a director that done gladiator which was a brilliant film, this is slightly disappointing in some ways.
Dislikes : One thing this film need to really make it a perfect film was emotion, this was the one thing missing from the film, there isn't any moments that make you want to cry or get emotional about because you kind of see things comings, which is what make this slightly disappointing on it epic storyline it seem more of a visual effect film than anything else.
Th other things as well is when mosses meets a woman there is no concept on how they fall in love with each other & then having a son out of now, this made the film feel rushed, bear in mind that the original film was over 5 hours long, this film feel to short from what should of been told in the film, sadly even for me i thought this was going to be a brilliant film, it just ended up being an ok film.
Overall : Visual effect brilliant , not much on emotional storyline but an ok film to watch.
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 for entertainment / 6.3 out of 10 for storyline.
Screen writer:
| Adam Cooper | ... | (written by) & |
| Bill Collage | ... | (written by) and |
| Jeffrey Caine | ... | (written by) and |
| Steven Zaillian | ... | (written by) |
Starring: Christian Bale , Joel Edgerton , John Turturro , Aaron Paul , Ben Mendelsohn , María Valverde , Sigourney Weaver , Ben Kingsley , Hiam Abbass , Isaac Andrews , Ewen Bremner , Indira Varma , Golshifteh Farahani , Ghassan Massoud , Tara Fitzgerald , Dar Salim , Andrew Tarbet , Ken Bones, Philip Arditti , Hal Hewetson , Christopher Sciueref
Running time: 150 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: Some hugging, kissing between Moses and his wife.
Violence & Gore: A battle sequence early on shows many die and in combat, some blood and wounds are seen.
A slave is being punished for misbehaviour. He is being whipped and his back is full of bloody wounds.
Ramses threatens to cut off the hand of a woman unless she confesses to be Moses's sister. When she does not confess, he swings his sword to cut off her arm but is stopped just in time by Moses.
Two men attack Moses and he fights against them and kills them by stabbing them.
The plagues over Egypt are often quite graphic and violent, boils and sores are seen, dead animals, blood water, crocodiles, a violent hail storm, frogs, flies, locusts and the death of the Egyptian first born sons.
In an attempt to make the slaves give up Moses to him, Ramses hangs a family of three in public, and threatens to hang one family every day. In several later scenes some more hangings are shown.
The boils caused by the flies and locusts on the faces of the Egyptians appear scary.
Horses and cattle suddenly fall down dead, spitting blood from their nostrils.
One of Ramses's generals falls off his chariot and is overrun by the chariot following him. No blood is shown though.
Profanity: None.
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking:Wine is consumed
Frightening/Intense Scenes: Curtain scene are border line 18 cert & maybe disturb some viewers
Story: Epic adventure Exodus: Gods and Kings is the story of one man's daring courage to take on the might of an empire. Using state of the art visual effects and 3D immersion, Scott brings new life to the story of the defiant leader Moses as he rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
Likes : One this Thing this film gives is outstanding special effects cinematography and visual effects are just brilliant done, the action fights sequence's are well done, Christian bale put a great performance but sadly nothing really special & Joel Edgerton performance as Ramses is great, for a Ridley Scott film its not bad.
Many should know this story is a remake of The Ten Commandments Directed by Cecil B. DeMille in 1956 which tells the tale of Hebrew slaves & the Egyptian Pharaoh, mosses told by god to free he slaves with his power, by the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses refuse's bringing the down fall of his kingdom, this story is told in a similar way just in a different more realistic way probably why this film has got some much flack from people in religious groups.
This is a pretty slow paced film but it dose have it moments of storytelling but sadly its not without it flaws, this coming from a director that done gladiator which was a brilliant film, this is slightly disappointing in some ways.
Dislikes : One thing this film need to really make it a perfect film was emotion, this was the one thing missing from the film, there isn't any moments that make you want to cry or get emotional about because you kind of see things comings, which is what make this slightly disappointing on it epic storyline it seem more of a visual effect film than anything else.
Th other things as well is when mosses meets a woman there is no concept on how they fall in love with each other & then having a son out of now, this made the film feel rushed, bear in mind that the original film was over 5 hours long, this film feel to short from what should of been told in the film, sadly even for me i thought this was going to be a brilliant film, it just ended up being an ok film.
Overall : Visual effect brilliant , not much on emotional storyline but an ok film to watch.
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 for entertainment / 6.3 out of 10 for storyline.
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