Exodus: Gods and Kings - DVD

Christian Bale as usual great. BTW he played Jesus in an indie film "Mary, Mother of Jesus". Now he is Moses. His industry colleague/bestie plays Noah (Russell Crowe). Now I'm just waiting for Hollywood to make Crowe play the character of God. These 2 are trying to one-up each other in their career characters. I would call/write the new movie - "The Power of God" Why? I didn't like the kid (not Biblical) in this film playing God, because God he is our Heavenly "Father". That is the only negative aspect about this film. Other than that, the plagues and visual effects were great.

If you're familiar with the bible and or story of Moses than you know what the story is about. The movie is great although I wish they'd make one with more ethnic diverse characters as ancient texts, art, etc portrayed as such thus my reason for four stars. Anyway the best thing about the movie is the graphics. I've seen fake graphics in movies that were of poor quality and not well coordinated but this one by far does the job. For $4.99 it's worth it! Buy it!

Good cast. Entertaining at times. But this is not the biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt. It does portray Moses as a military commander, which he was, but it portrays the Pharaoh as being rather wimpish which would have been extremely unlikely based upon what we know from history. Moreover, it identifies the Pharaoh as being Ramesses the Great (making it more incredulous that someone of such wimpish leadership would have been called the Great) when many historians believe that the Pharaoh at the time of the Exodus was either Thutmose II or Thutmose III with the Exodus being about 1446 B.C. This was about 200 years before Ramesses the Great. Still others say that the Pharaoh of the Exodus was Tutankhamun and that the Exodus was in about 1330 B.C. - still many decades before Ramesses. So there is certainly poetic license in this movie which must be viewed more for its entertainment value than for its historical accuracy. For that reason, I give it 3 stars as it does hold your interest. But the story is a bit disjointed at times and hard to follow. The plagues seem to happen out of order, and most of the plagues are shown to occur even before Moses goes to the Pharaoh and demands of him to "Let my people go" which is again confusing to the viewer. So watch it if you want a good action movie, but prepared to be surprised and confused if you expect it to retell the biblical tale in Exodus.

This was a great movie; full of suspense and action. I I enjoyed watching this movie, from start to finish

It's modern CGI and typical modern movie photography - and does a decent job at preserving the spiritual integrity of the story. Certainly not the charisma of actors that put flair into the role. It's strength is in photography and the familiarity of storyline, which at time is drowned in modern cinema technique, and CGI. Not any real powerful character development. That's why I did not give it 5 stars.