Exodus: Gods and Kings might just take the cake for being the worst biblical epic ever made in cinematic history.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 26, 2024

Ridley Scott has directed an entertaining and competent version of a story we all know and has imbued it with the “realism” with which we sweeten today's fantastic stories of yesteryear. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 2, 2024

The most essential element lacking from the production, beyond even its historically inaccurate cast, remains the film's inability to find a new or novel relevance for an audience who has heard this story countless times before.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 16, 2022

How so many talented people came together here and just so completely whiffed on one of the most incredible stories ever written is beyond me.

| Original Score: C | Aug 10, 2021

Scott's film eschews all the Hollywood glam of DeMille's biblical epic. It's humanistic and so gritty you'll feel like taking a bath afterwards, but not in the Nile, which is turned a lurid blood red as one of the ten plagues.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Attempts to tell a famous tale with a rarely experimented, distinct realism, even though the most popular interpretations are mythical.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2020

It was very much pleasurable seeing all those buildings and ancient Egyptian construction work in such detail.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Nov 20, 2020

Even if we don't consider the racial problems in casting, the emotional motivations are flimsy at best. No amount of pretty visuals can mask clunky dialogue and thinly veiled characters.

| Original Score: C | Jul 16, 2020

A film awash in dubious logic and problematic decisions.

| Original Score: D+ | Jul 7, 2020

Sadly, by the time we get to much of the action, it doesn't have any weight. Why build such a real world if you're not going to populate it with interesting people?

| Apr 15, 2020

[T]he visual spectacle is reason enough to see Exodus: Gods and Kings. [Dariusz] Wolski's imagery is also fueled by the production design of Arthur Max which is beyond impressive.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 14, 2019

Too solemn in its mighty grandeur, Scott's treatment seems already mummified.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 12, 2019

John Turturro, Aaron Paul, Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley add support in this sometimes campy and shallow, sometimes solemn, but mostly absorbing interpretation of the story of Moses.

| Aug 5, 2019

That the film's only exuberant display of cinematic prowess is reserved for an extended 30-minute sequence of God raining His wrath down on the ruling class won't be lost on viewers in the year 2014, which has seen so much racial injustice...

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 16, 2019

Ridley Scott may be 77, but he's making films with the energy and ambition of a man half his age.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 31, 2019

Irónicamente, la ola de muerte levantada por las diez plagas le da algo de vida a la película, pero es algo meramente visual como ver el agua transformarse en sangre o a una manada de cocodrilos comerse entre sí.

| Original Score: 4/ 10 | Jan 19, 2019

It primarily seems to exist to host its excellent action sequences. Mainly, it's what most of us would expect, for better and worse.

| Original Score: B | Dec 20, 2018

Even though all of the contrived melodrama and less than ardent acting, Scott's direction makes EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS a valuable piece of filmmaking

| Original Score: B- | Dec 8, 2018

Controversy and constant déjà-vus aside, the latest telling sure is gorgeous but can leave you feeling empty. Might be acceptable, if all you need is pretty sights.

| Oct 10, 2018

In terms of sheer scale, Ridley has succeeded in his endeavours.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2018