Ben-Hur

Kind of boring! Easy to see why this got bad reviews and bombed at the box office. It was slow paced. Not enough time spent developing a reason to care for the characters or who they really were. The Jesus side story which only occupies 5-10min of this film feels like an after thought and is poorly done. The action scenes were not that exciting. In short this movie is just ...... eh :/

It was good... if you have not seen the original movie or know the true story. Ben-Hur is a true story from the bible. Today's producers take amazing stories and completely change them because they think they will make more money. Other than the fact that they trashed a wonderful movie, took out key parts, and added in new parts that never happened, it was half-way decent.

THE PLOT IS TERRIBLE COMPARE TO THE 59' ONE. THE PRESENCE OF JESUS WAS WEAK IN THIS MOVIE AND THE NARRATION AND PLAY BY MORGAN FREEMAN WAS MEDIOCRE. I THINK THE PRODUCERS WANTED TO GIVE FREEMAN A MAIN ROLE IN THIS MOVIE BY MAKING HIM AN AFRICAN CHIEF. IN THE 59' VERSION, JESUS PRESENCE WAS SUBLIME AND JUDAH HAD MORE STRENGTH OF CHARACTER AND AUTHORITY. THE END WAS WISHY WASHY SUPPOSEDLY BY HAPPY FAMILY REUNION, BUT IT WAS NOT REAL LIFE SITUATION RECONCILIATION, ONLY WISHFUL THINKING. TOO BAD THIS MODERN PRODUCERS CANNOT MAKE A BEN-HUR FILM WITH THE CALIBER AS THE 59' VERSION BY WYLER. REAL BAD PLOT AND JUNKY MOVIE, BUT IT WILL ENTERTAIN YOU FOR WHAT IS WORTH.