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Ah, I get it. Ridley Scott and Christian Bale got together and said, let's make a comedy about Moses. A kind of "Life of Moses" in similar vein to Monty Python's "Life of Brian". Well, it's not as funny as "Life of Brian", but probably funnier than a Seth Rogen or Adam Sandler movie. Like the Hebrew slaves (who are working double-shifts in their spare time) training to be warriors by learning to ride horses like Comanches and fire arrows into effigies of the Hebrew families being hanged by Ramses every day. Har! Har! What a hoot! Or the iron foundry being run by the slaves, with fire and smoke and hammers banging against steel, under the noses of Egyptian guards and Hebrew spies and whoever else passes by, but nobody has a clue! Crikey, cracked me up.

The sad thing is that in the face of the endless crap being produced by so many clowns, you hope that you can rely on folks like Scott and Bale for a bit of quality cinema. I didn't see "Noah" but heard it was awful, yet Darren Aronofsky and Russell Crowe have been responsible for a lot of good movies in the past 20 years. Same thing. Still, unless "Noah" had Seth Rogen or Adam Sandler in it, it couldn't have been worse than this load of tripe served up by Scott and Bale.

The fact that a film is ludicrous doesn't necessarily mean that it will be bad. Take "Lockout" with Guy Pearce - utterly ridiculous, but funny and highly entertaining. "3 Days to Kill" is also utterly ridiculous, but its attempts at humour fall pretty flat, and eventually, getting to the end of it just becomes a tedious chore. The fact that Luc Besson's name is attached could help explain this, but then he also has a screenplay credit for "Lockout", so that can't be the only reason.

It's a pity to see a talent like Hailee Steinfeld being chewed up by this sort of dross. It's also sad to see quality actors like Kevin Costner and Connie Neilsen appearing in any old crap in order to make a buck, but I guess that's the trend - see Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, Liam Neeson, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer etc. etc. At least Neilsen mercifully missed most of it, by "going overseas on business". Good move.

If you've got "2 Hours to Kill", you'd be better off reading A Brief History of Knitting than wasting it watching this drivel.

Another piece of crud from Robert De Niro and, increasingly, sadly, from Michelle Pfeiffer. This "comedy" is totally devoid of humour, completely lacking in morality (violence solves absolutely everything, and the more extreme the violence, the better - an outstanding lesson here for kids), and so ridiculous that it's offensive to the audience's intelligence. Well, maybe not the last one, judging from other comments on this page. Still, this witless piece of rubbish doesn't deserve to be seen, so why is Tommy Lee Jones in it? Are these guys this desperate to make a buck? Don't they have any pride? The fact that a film like this can be made, and then receive high marks from reviewers, is nothing but a sad example of society in decay.