Bigger is better, in this Biblical Epic

Rating: 10/10 (23 January 2010)

No film will make you believe in miracles like Ben-Hur. The film is about a Judean prince(Heston) who accidentally kills the governor of Judea and his former friend(Boyd) sends him to the galleys and he swears revenge. He has such a strong faith in God and ultimately leads back to Judea on a quest to find his mother and sister(who were arrested along with Judah. His love(Harareet)wrongfully tells him that his mother and sister are dead(they had obtained leprosy) and his revenge culminates in one of the grandest sequences in film history: the chariot scene. Films are not made like this anymore. Unlike today, everything pretty much was real, and this is one of the few movies where bigger is better. The scenes with Christ are beautiful. They never say his name but I find it more powerful. The one word to really describe this movie is EPIC.