An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since it was directed by Cecil B. DeMille and since it was available in on YouTube, I thought I might as well check it out. The funny thing is that, even though Cecil B. DeMille is probably one of the most famous directors that ever lived, it was only the 3rd movie I saw directed by this guy. To make it even weirder, the first movie I ever saw from him was actually the remake he made 30 years later of this very same movie. Anyway, there is no doubt that the production was value was really impressive for a movie made 100 years ago and I was expecting to watch a pretty cool vintage biblical epic. Well, while I was watching the damned thing, I was surprised that the whole thing started already after the 9th plague and I was even more surprised that, within less than 45 mins, Moses already had his hands on the famous tablet with the ten commandments. Indeed, it turned out that the whole epic thing was actually only some kind of very fancy elaborate and slightly overblown intro to a typical romantic drama from the 20’s. The difference of scale between these two parts (the biblical part and the modern part) was so huge, it was actually rather jarring. It seemed as if they ran out of money early on and decided to focus instead on a rather cheap love triangle very loosely linked with the ten commandments. No wonder DeMille would be eager to give it another shot 30 years later. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it was still a decent watch and it is worth a look, if only to see the real cool first part. 

6/10