Exodus: Gods and Kings is a movie that manages to extract most of its dramatic force from the relationship between its protagonist and God. However, by not caring about virtually any other character, Ridley Scott sabotages the potential of the story.
Exodus tells the story of the prince of Egypt, Moses (Christian Bale), who, after discovering he is Hebrew and adopted, is exiled by his brother, Pharaoh Ramses (Joel Edgerton). Beginning to live as a shepherd far from the city in which he grew up, Moses, an extremely skeptical man, decides to climb a mountain considered forbidden grounds by God. The shepherd, then, has an [...]