Exodus: Gods and Kings
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The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
What critics thought
Ridley Scott's take on the Moses story lands in genuinely divided territory: its widescreen spectacle and technical ambition earn real admiration, but critics split sharply over whether the film is merely overlong and dramatically thin or actively bad — a bloated blockbuster that drains a foundational story of its emotional core. Scott's atheism and liberal departures from scripture also alienated religious audiences the film might otherwise have courted.
“Exodus: Gods And Kings... lacks Gladiator's full-on intensity and committed central performances, however; it's a mixture of the grand and the bland, and when it's not spectacular it's a little plodding.”
Phillips Hawker·The Sydney Morning Herald
“Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings is a terrible film. It is a badly acted and badly written melodrama that takes what should be a passionate and emotionally wrenching story and drains it of all life and all dramatic interest.”
Scott Mendelson·Forbes
“Director Ridley Scott gets lost in the desert at times in Exodus: Gods and Kings, his epic, but not entirely effective take on the story of Moses's journey from an Egyptian Royal to Hebrew leader.”
Jim Vejvoda·IGN
“It's impossible not to feel some awe at the spectacle, but more shocks would have helped see you through the two-and-a-half hour running time.”
Catherine Shoard·The Guardian
“Exodus is a biblical epic that comes at you at maximum velocity but stays stirringly, inspiringly human.”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
Genres
Adventure, Drama, Action
Cast & Crew
Ridley ScottDirector
Christian BaleMoses
Joel EdgertonRamses II
Ben KingsleyNun
John TurturroSethos I
Aaron PaulJoshua
Golshifteh FarahaniNefertari
Ben MendelsohnViceroy Hegep
Sigourney WeaverTuja
Hiam AbbassBithia
María ValverdeSéfora
Isaac AndrewsMalak
Indira VarmaHigh Priestess
Alberto IglesiasComposer
Steven ZaillianWriter
Bill CollageWriter
Adam CooperWriter
Dariusz WolskiCinematographyExodus: Gods and Kings
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
What critics thought
Ridley Scott's take on the Moses story lands in genuinely divided territory: its widescreen spectacle and technical ambition earn real admiration, but critics split sharply over whether the film is merely overlong and dramatically thin or actively bad — a bloated blockbuster that drains a foundational story of its emotional core. Scott's atheism and liberal departures from scripture also alienated religious audiences the film might otherwise have courted.
“Exodus: Gods And Kings... lacks Gladiator's full-on intensity and committed central performances, however; it's a mixture of the grand and the bland, and when it's not spectacular it's a little plodding.”
Phillips Hawker·The Sydney Morning Herald
“Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings is a terrible film. It is a badly acted and badly written melodrama that takes what should be a passionate and emotionally wrenching story and drains it of all life and all dramatic interest.”
Scott Mendelson·Forbes
“Director Ridley Scott gets lost in the desert at times in Exodus: Gods and Kings, his epic, but not entirely effective take on the story of Moses's journey from an Egyptian Royal to Hebrew leader.”
Jim Vejvoda·IGN
“It's impossible not to feel some awe at the spectacle, but more shocks would have helped see you through the two-and-a-half hour running time.”
Catherine Shoard·The Guardian
“Exodus is a biblical epic that comes at you at maximum velocity but stays stirringly, inspiringly human.”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
Genres
Adventure, Drama, Action
Cast & Crew
Ridley ScottDirectorChristian BaleMosesJoel EdgertonRamses IIBen KingsleyNunJohn TurturroSethos IAaron PaulJoshuaGolshifteh FarahaniNefertariBen MendelsohnViceroy HegepSigourney WeaverTujaHiam AbbassBithiaMaría ValverdeSéforaIsaac AndrewsMalakIndira VarmaHigh PriestessAlberto IglesiasComposerSteven ZaillianWriterBill CollageWriterAdam CooperWriterDariusz WolskiCinematographyRent & Buy