After a long period of expectation in regards of the "Exodus" 2014 film, now that the controversial film has finally hit theaters, the movie has encountered yet another issue after months of issues: critics have received the film very poorly.
The issues with the "Exodus" 2014 film, full name "Exodus: Gods and Kings," first started when the cast was first announced, as it was considered racially insensitive to cast non-Jewish actors in the ultimate tale of Jewish history and the core of the religion; but, say reviewers, that's only one in a list of things that went wrong in the movie.
As UT San Diego points out, once a movie takes material as historically and religiously filled like the story of Moses taking the Jewish people out of Egypt, there's bound to be some issues in regards of audience-pleasing: in all, "Exodus" 2014 was never meant to be the film that would satisfy all audiences, mostly due to its heavy content that matters so much to so many people.
However, it wasn't just a matter that "Exodus" 2014 would be unable to satisfy all audiences: it seems there's not many that are pleased with it at all. The database Rotten Tomatoes, which creates a rating based on different reviews from different critics' perspectives, gives the movie a 30 percent "rotten" rating, based on 87 reviews by Friday, December 12.
"[Exodus 2014] is an utterly clueless, relentlessly grim and rambling action epic guaranteed to displease devout Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, amuse atheists - and generally bore everyone," said The New York Post of the movie in its review, later on making a point in saying Christian Bale's acting was subpar and that the rest of the cast was either wrong for the role or just lacked depth.
The cast, with a lot of big stars of the likes of Aaron Paul, Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro and Ben Kingsley, seemed to have missed a chance for greatness in Ridley Scott's "Exodus" 2014.
