The "Titanic" of 1959

Rating: 5/10 (4 May 2002)

This Oscar-winning remake is super-proficient in its production values, but as an entertainment is a completely joyless trudge of a movie. It highlights the seemingly neverending pain, suffering and hate of the original novel and thereby just makes more obvious the inherent hypocrisy of that and the silent film (a revenge tale sub-titled "The Tale of the Christ" ?!?). The chariot race sequence - in its predictable way - is the only exceptional scene in the picture; the rest is boring and massively overrated.