The Bible Reviews

There have been epics in the 50s and 60s that have been absolutely fantastic! I was interested in seeing this one because I did see The Ten Commandments and absolutely loved it so needed to see a biblical film in the 50s or 60s that tells the stories of the Bible in the beginning. When I watched it, The Bible: In The Beginning… turned out to be out of the most disappointing films I have ever seen. It was very dull and after a while, the storylines were getting uninteresting and unrealistic. I mean, they were either too long or not long enough. The film lacked emotion, tension and excitement.


The acting from everyone in the cast was poor except for George C. Scott as Noah. Michael Parks and Ulla Bergryd portrayed Adam and Eve. Where I was disappointed in that storyline was that the creation of the Earth was too long but the parts with the apple and the snake went on too quickly and felt rushed. I was mostly disappointed with the Cain and Abel storyline because I was excited to see that because I didn't really have very much knowledge of that story and the story was very rushed and went WAY too quickly! The only storyline I was satisfied with was the story of Noah. Peter O'Toole stars in another epic film but to be honest his performance in Lawrence Of Arabia is too memorable to make his character believable in this one.


John Huston, what were you thinking?! I mean, the man is the director of The Treasure Of Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen and Prizzi's Honor!! Huston has unfortunately created the first classic that I hated. I think him as well as most of the actors in the film tried to recreate what Cecil B. DeMille and Charlton Heston created in The Ten Commandments and when you try and recreate a classic no matter the cast, it always backfires! I thought it was badly filmed! The picture in it was awful! It was very dark and you could hardly see what was happening. This mostly occurred during the Adam and Eve story. I mean, it made it look like they used a cheap filmmaking camera.


Overall, The Bible: In The Beginning… is a very disappointing biblical film that very plain, boring and dull. Avoid it!