MGM's triumphant swan song in its dominance of Hollywood

Rating: Null/10 (28 October 2002)

The massive success of this 1959 MGM release came with a downside. It was with this film that the studio's thirty-five year long dominance of the Hollywood scene came to an abrupt end. The full reasons for this are a Hollywood mystery. With this film, the studio certainly had a very hard act to follow either way. Charlton Heston is superb in the title role and offers another example of why he could always be depended on to make a religious epic film a grand piece of entertainment. Film is especially noted by many for its incredible chariot race sequence. One of the very last classics of the Hollywood studio system.