EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
Director: Ridley Scott. Cert: 12A. 150 mins
From acclaimed veteran director Ridley Scott comes the latest cinematic take on Biblical source material. As a film, Exodus: Gods and Kings is an often heavy-handed epic, which nonetheless becomes powerful filmmaking when it gets going. The visuals are impressive and the 3D adds depth.
Most supporting characters get little screentime (suggesting the existence of a longer Director’s Cut, as with Ridley Scott’s earlier epic Kingdom of Heaven), the likes of Indira Varma as a supercilious High Priestess and Ewen Bremner as an ‘Expert’ who tries to explain away the plagues provide entertaining supporting turns.
