Ben-Hur

All you have to do is read all the major reviews when this movie came out! From the New York times to the San Francisco Chronicle they all had the highest praise for Ben-Hur. All were 5 stars!! But today critic's are so politically correct that they can't praise any christian theme movie!! How about 11 Academy Awards-1st ever until Titanic!!!!!

How in hell do you think there is homosexual overtones in Ben-Hur? The movie isn't about sex, it's about Jesus Christ and a man's personal struggle with the Roman Empire. Not anything about being naked on a ship.. Those thoughts didn't even race through my mind when watching this great movie. That's sick.

This is possibly the worst review I've ever read. I think you got just about everything wrong.

I recently watched Ben Hur after seeing Wyler’s film ‘The Heiress,’ which has the most extraordinary production design. I was wondering what Wyler would do with Hollywood sword-and-sandal boilerplate. Sans the Eisenhower-era indifference to authentic historical milieu and lighting that’s often bland, it really holds up. It cannot be easy to orchestrate so much action without drowning in minutiae. Although this is ‘the story of the Christ,’ it’s the attraction and conflict between Hur and Messala that creates and drives the drama. The religious sub-plot is woven into the personal drama and historical sweep without trivializing it and without a trace of preachiness.

Ben Hur captures the death of Christ better than any movie ever made. And they do it without comment, a masterful work from a masterful director. Amazing.

I can't believe this review. This film was by no means a lecture but rather an epic action flick that periodically provides you with edge-of-your seat fun. The 3.5 hour movie breezed bye, even its exposition was enjoyable.

Over the years it has become the norm for most British critics to attack 'Ben-Hur', with the usual stinging comments of "wooden dialogue", "over-inflated" and "overlong" thrown at it. It clearly looks expensive but it is meant to be an expensive spectacular. It simply looks great and the story is enhanced by effective performances including Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd (who had won a Golden Globe for his performance as Messala in 1960). The sea battle works and the now legnedary chariot race is worth the admission fee alone. To call a religious epic pompous and preachy (as many critics do) is to call the Queen dutiful. This is a religious epic and one of the finest epics ever to grace the screen.