Exodus plays like The Ten Commandments via Middle Earth: this is good old-fashioned Biblical epic with modern film tech and a strong committed central performance by Christian Bale as Moses which conveys an effective arc for Moses from atheist general to a leader of faith. As expected, Ridley Scott tells the story very well, wonderfully economic with narrative when required but occasionally somewhat languorous when given the opportunity, and CGI creates a wonderful sense of scale and realises the plagues brilliantly on-screen. There is a surprising lack of emotion that particularly makes the finale have less impact than expected, but overall this is a very confident and well-mounted staging of another familiar story.
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