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When I recently tried the remake of Ghostbusters then I had half expected it to fall short because the original script had been so tight but with Ben Hur I had greater expectations. Okay the stuntmen wouldn't be putting their life on the line in quite the same way, but with modern film making and some impressive GCI I was onto a winner. Well not quite. For such an interesting story, director Bekmambetov, with a few exceptions, managed to sterilise the warmth between the Ben Hur royality. A luke warm script made some scenes drag on and you wished Judah Ben Hur would hurry up and get captured so we could have some real action. Much of the film making would feel quite at home as a TV movie where the viewing angles are such that crowd scenes never have more than 20 people. The Jesus story was lost on me and felt tacked on rather than important to the main purpose. Then just when you thought there was no hope, Morgan Freeman turns up. A sharp and powerful performance which helps to narrate happenings. The horse racing scenes are also a credit and pull you right into the action even if at one point a horse running through the crowd is rubbish CGI. |
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