When it comes to director Ridley Scott's artistic and storytelling choices, there's so much wrong with "Exodus: Gods and Kings," it's hard to care about the director's childish hostility towards religion, which no doubt resulted in a bloodless, brutally boring tale of Moses the Lawgiver.Honestly, if it weren't for the fact that film reviewing is my job, I would've left long before the parting of the Red Sea.
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Thematically, Scott makes a fool of himself. DeMille used the ancient biblical tale to tell a universal story about human liberty. Where Charlton Heston's Moses demanded that Ramses "Let my people go!", Bale's Moses -- and this is no joke -- demands that Ramses pay his slaves a living wage and make them -- again, no joke -- citizens. DeMille's Moses was a liberator. Scott's Moses is a community organizer agitating for executive action on the minimum wage and amnesty.
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These bigoted, provincial, secular, left-wing Hollywood morons hand projects like "Noah" and "Exodus" to filmmakers determined to strip history's most moving and inspiring stories of everything that moves and inspires. "The Passion" printed money because it hit the faithful squarely where we lived.
"Noah" and "Exodus" just lie there like a Muzak version of "Sexual Healing."
RE: Bale’s Moses — and this is no joke — demands that Ramses pay his slaves a living wage and make them — again, no joke — citizens. . Scott’s Moses is a community organizer agitating for executive action on the minimum wage and amnesty.
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They subtly want to equate Obama to Moses.