One of the best films EVER

Rating: 10/10 (12 July 2003)

No need to mention the usual: the chariot race (one of the greatest scenes in all of movie history), the costumes, acting, etc. Just suffice it to say it remains one of the best films ever made. One of those "timeless" pieces that endures the test of time and actually draws new meaning every time it's watched.
I didn't comprehend this it until I watched it again recently on DVD and took in the "Making Of Ben Hur" (a special feature on the DVD set) but the making of this film in 1959, was a large an undertaking -- if not more at that time, comparatively speaking -- and was as phenomenial to audiences and American society then as the making of the $400 million "Lord Of The Rings" was to our society and generation now. It was colossus. Completely unheard of. Staggering. Just the making of it, not mention it's actual quality both then and now. And all this without so much as a grain of the level of technology we have now post-2000. So that says a lot about this film.
It's timeless.