Good, but not great.

Rating: 7/10 (7 April 2006)

Ben-Hur is a ridiculously overlong spectacle that takes it's time to get going, then goes full throttle for a while, then seems to dawdle on after the darn thing should have ended a long time ago. I mean, I know WHY it had to end the way it did, but to me, if it would have ended after the chariot race I wouldn't have complained. Charleton Heston plays the lead here, and he's quite fine as the tortured Jew (literally and figuratively) Being a man in such a position like Ben-Hur would take an actor of a large stature, and Heston is the guy to pull it off. I really like his performance here. All the other supporting players are great too, but this is Heston's movie, so get out of the way ha ha.