REVIEW - Exodus: Gods and Kings

Perhaps it's a mite disingenuous to describe this as "not as bad as Noah", because that particular 138 minutes was almost entirely reprehensible. This story of Moses' exploits with the Hebrew slaves in Egypt, which led to the parting of the Red Sea was 10 minutes longer and several tonnes of camel crap lighter.

But as with Noah, I found Ridley Scott's (intentionally?) clumsy treatment of the alleged source material to be annoying. I don't remember the Bible talking of Moses fighting in battle with Pharoah-to-be Ramses. I thought it spoke of him being a kind of quartermaster, overseeing the Egyptian grain supplies. But maybe that's my memory.

What WAS shoddy was the way the climactic scene on the bed of the - temporarily dry - Red Sea, just happened to see Moses and Ramses in a convenient face-off as the giant tidal wave of the returning waters apparently bore down just feet away, with - in  the next scene - them both looking dry and perky on their respective banks of that Sea.

As always, for the woman's / non-believer's / non-hypercritical view, we need to consider Mrs P's opinion which was "Good movie. I really enjoyed it".

As they say, it takes all sorts.