2014 · adventure · drama · action
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Directed by Ridley Scott2h 30m2014
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.
Our read: Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded adventure · drama · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
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“You want Ridley Scott biblical spectacle with plagues, desert scale, and Moses rage.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if two-and-a-half hours of sand, sermons, and uneven casting drains you.
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