Da epic

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2000)

One of those "epic" type films made in the golden age of cinema. I thought this film was pretty good and had some great stuff going for it. Heston was good, and Stephen Boyd as Massala was excellent might I add. At times I did find it a little slow but not totaly. That chariot race was also amazing, and looked intensly painful and real for the participants even though it was made so long ago with simple technology. It boggles my mind that people back in the late 50's made films like this pulling out all the stops with killer locations, killer cast, killer costumes, killer cinematography, and a killer epic story.
Although in the epic category "Lawrence of Arabia" remains my all time fav, I didn't mind this one that much.
Rating 8 out of 10