No Ben Hur

Rating: Null/10 (6 May 2000)

I expected something big from this film, but sadly it does not come up with the goods. You spend most of the 2 and half hours gazing at your watch wanting for this weary flick to end. The battle scenes are terrible, Scotts attempt of the flickering shots so wonderfully done by Spielberg in 'Saving Private Ryan' failure miserably . The continual shots of the city of Rome look cheesy and fabricated, it reeks of computer generation. As the ancient Romans did when they wanted to see the death of a beaten gladiator, thumbs down.