Just Cause Its an Epic Doesn't Make It Good

Rating: Null/10 (15 August 2000)

I decided one night that I had four hours of time, and so rented what was supposed to be the greatest epic ever. I hoped that it would be a very fine and entertaining film. At the beginning the character development was good, and from then on I felt like I was being tortured. How can people like this film!? Throughout most of the movie each scene is long drawn out and boring with dialogue that I would be able to understand if it weren't for the fact that its so long and dull that I stopped listening after awhile. One thing that annoyed me was some points where they just skipped steps to aid to the story. The one thing that really got me was when they decided that Charlton Hestons character had become a great chariot driver and horse trainer. One minute we haven't seen him near a horse and then the general is bragging about him racing. Where did that come from. After the chariot race, which was pretty good seeing the two childhood friends dueling it out, I figured the end of the movie was upon us. Nooooooo, they decided that now it was a good time to show the crusifiction of christ, who had only been in the movie one time before. Its ok to show this and they did a very good job, but what did this have to do with the rest of the story with betrayal, battles, revenge, and forgiveness? Nothing.