I watched the movie Exodus about how Moses brought the Jews out of Egypt.
What I can say is that for anyone who is familiar with the original source (a corresponding book from the Bible), it is better not even to try to look at it.
They ruined almost everything they could. Filmed (as it turned out) in Spain, so that the landscapes do not resemble Egypt even remotely (all kinds of mountains and mountains are consistent, who has been in Egypt at least once, will appreciate "liveness"). Characters almost constantly throughout the film curl from the cold and rain in warm clothes (it's like showing Moscovites on New Year's Eve walking on the streets in cowards and maids, flattering with winds from the whistle).
Well, and Hollywood walked its way, American...
Meeting of the military council with the Pharaoh. Remember that Pharaoh is considered a half-god, and you can not sit in his presence. The commanders are sitting on some almost office chairs, periodically pulling through the throat of Ikeevic glasses (I don’t joke – one-on-one look like TRANSPARENT Ikeevic glasses for 64 rubles a piece) an unnamed brown fluid from a TRANSPARENT glass vessel (transparent glass was first made 800 years after the events described, and not in Egypt). The vessel generally resembled a litre bottle of VSOP cognac with a washed label. At the time, it could at best be beer, strong drinks appeared about 2000 years later.
Pharaoh in the process of discussion actively chews gum (formerly even in American films pharaohs and other Romans and Greeks did not do this, it is necessary to pay tribute).
The culmination was the appearance on this military council of the likeness of FLIPCHART (well, the board is such, on which paper of large format is attached for drawing all sorts of schemes, in America an organization without a flipchart is like not an organization at all), only on this Egyptian flipchart - fixed PAPIRUS :-). Moreover, one papyrus of the size as shown in the film - about one and a half meters (they are there with ease scrolling on it arrow-through - "the first column marches, the second column marches"), was in those times about 3-4 annual salary of a middle-hand official...
I was expecting that the pharaoh during that military council in his pocket would have a payer or a cell phone call, or someone from the generals would pull out a package of Malborough and a lighter from his pocket.
And, almost forgotten - the invasion of frogs and the sinking of the Pharaoh's army by the tide is beautifully painted by the multipliers. You can watch for 10-15 minutes. The remaining three hours are green.
I just can’t understand one thing, why try to make a movie on a book known almost all over the world, sacred to at least three religions (Jews, Christians, Muslims), and at the same time almost every episode of it to try to “improve” in every way with all sorts of stupid distinctions?
It reminded me of "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", filmed in Soviet times, it seems, Ptuško. Pushkin's poetic text was, as a rule, "from the author", and in the film something had to be put into the mouth of the heroes, said in the first person. As a result, the "now living co-authors", not cleverly, re-written at least half of Pushkin's poems - hurtfully, of course. It was a poem of Pushkin (sorry, a great poet, anyway) in the processing of some bird.
Here came the Bible in the hallucinatory processing of some Ridley Scott.