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Ben-Hur

2016

Timur Bekmambetov

Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Morgan Freeman, Rodrigo Santoro ...

4.7

5,175

Adventure. Drama The epic story of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army. After years at sea, Judah returns to his homeland to seek revenge, but finds redemption.

	Author	Review
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"An epic disaster (...) This version’s 124 minutes feel much longer than Wyler’s 212 (...) Rating: 0 (out of four)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"'Ben-Hur' remake offers robust spectacle and some decent performances. But ultimately, the director of 'Wanted' (...) is, perhaps unsurprisingly, not the ideal filmmaker to capture this timeless story’s more nuanced emotional range"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"The good news is that the story of Ben-Hur is so rock solid that not even the director of 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' can screw it up completely"	NEU
United States	Joe McGovern Entertainment Weekly	"Another symbol of the modern conservatism and lack of tentpole imagination"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Misguided, diminished and dismally done in every way, this late-summer afterthought will richly earn the distinction of becoming the first Ben-Hur in any form to flop"	NEG
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"The best thing about the reimagined 'Ben-Hur' (...) is that it delivers a contest as thunderously stirring as any action sequence from the 'Fast and Furious' franchise"	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"This 21st century Ben-Hur is more phlegmatic than awful, a by and large dull and lethargic piece of work that is not bad enough to get mad at. What it lacks most of all is a convincing reason to exist"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] is a digitalized eyesore hobbled in every department by staggering incompetence. (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A chariot race exciting enough to evoke the one from 1959 still isn't enough to justify a sludgy and scattershot remake"	NEU
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"What is it about this summer, first with a “Tarzan” retread that nobody wanted, and now this? (...) The acting is mediocre, the cliches sprout like weeds and the dialogue is at times unintentionally laughable"	NEG

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