Exodus: Gods and Kings

"Whether it’s an Alien sort-of prequel or Moses the Movie, you can’t deny Ridley Scott’s ability to make a film look gosh-darn pretty, nor his third dimensional eye that justifies the price of a 3D ticket. Exodus continually stimulates on a visual level throughout its two-and-a-half hour running time, with spectacular sights of heavily populated civilisations, storms of death consuming the IMAX screen, and a single horse freaking out underneath a ten-storey wall of collapsing water."

"Succeeds in conjuring a mighty and momentous spectacle while turning [Ridley Scott's] own skepticism into a potent source of moral and dramatic conflict."

"Let my people go see something else."

"A Biblical epic to shake your faith in the order of things, not reaffirm it."

"It is half turkey, half triumph."

"No movie with such a limp ending can be fully satisfying, and the beginning also falters. But the long middle section is a rousing good show."

"Confuses and frustrates with an uneven mix of camp and tragedy layered through Scott's controversial biblical spectacle."

"Its spiritual uncertainty - and lack of triumphalism - perhaps robs it of a truly satisfying, cathartic conclusion, but also makes for a truly modern, thoughtful biblical blockbuster."