One of the best

Rating: 10/10 (23 February 2000)

One of the best movies ever made, be it the set design, lighting, camera work, story line, music, editing and, purposefully put in the last place, the acting. But that was the way they acted in those days. Out classes the also pretty good Cleopatra, Spartacus and 10 Commandments, they seem to suffer more under the search for drama than Ben Hur although, again seen through todays eyes, Ben Hur could just as well have done without the over acting. A Rembrant's painting as a movie.