Tuesday, 1 September 2015

Noah (2014) 5/10

Starring : Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Anthony Hopkins
Director : Darren Aronofsky
Running Time : 138 mins

Noah (Crowe) is told by the voice of God that he plans on destroying mankind and starting over by sending a flood. Noah is challenged with the task of building a massive ark to help protect a select number of animals and his own family, but first he must contend with the evil machinations of his brother-in-law, Tubal-Cain (Winstone).

Although the special effects were good enough, this was nothing but an overlong nonsense tale which has Noah acting like a nutcase rather than a man acting on the word of God (although in this day and age they are often the same thing). There wasn’t enough fun moments with Noah collecting the animals, and as far as I could see the Ark was pretty much empty! Plus, not to take a dig at religion, but it doesn’t make sense to me that God would decide to wipe out the evil of mankind by sending a flood yet choose to save a man whose wife is a descendent of Cain!

You’ll like this if you liked : Pompeii


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