The Ten Commandments

from my 100 Popular Movies Marathon, part 3 of 100



The Ten Commandments, 1956. The life of Moses, skipping most of the stuff in the Bible.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Written by Æneas MacKenzie, Jesse Lasky Jr., Jack Gariss & Fredric M. Frank, based on books by Dorothy Clarke Wilson, J.H. Ingraham & A.E. Southon. Starring Charlton Heston & Yul Brynner.

Concept: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Story: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Characters: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Dialog: 0/4 (Terrible)
Pacing: 2/4 (Indifferent). Surprisingly, it took nearly three hours before I started to get bored.
Cinematography: 1/4 (Bad)
Special effects/design: 1/4 (Bad)
Acting: 0/4 (Terrible)
Music: 3/4 (Good)
Subjective Rating: 5/10 (Indifferent, 2/4). It's an awful movie, but it's a reasonably entertaining sort of awful, with plenty of opportunity for exclaiming "sweet fancy Moses" at the screen. I can't figure out what audience it's intended for: it's too preachy for the non-religious, and too grossly inaccurate for the religious.
Objective Rating (Average): 1.5/4 (Eh)