Russell Crowe
4.0 out of 5 stars Weak Odd Beginning, Ends Well — a Solid Four, July 31, 2014
This is an art video, not a science video. It is an artistic interpretation the Bible Belt has gone nuts over, to no useful end. I find that on balance, while the movie has almost no connection to reality or theology, it does have enough philosophy and cinematic value to be a solid four.
The team producing this movie over-reached badly on the beginning and the sci-fi aspects they portray at the beginning. That costs them one star. The rest of the movie is a compelling mix of extaordinary cinematography, a subtle script in which Cain keeps resurfacing including in Noah's own son, and a very happy tear-jerking ending in which man is resurrected from the dead.
Not worth going to a movie house for, but absolutely worth having on background at the flat screen that is next to all smart people's double-screen workstation. Not Russell Crowe's best work, a few extraordinary facial arrangements not-with-standing, but by no means deserving of all the ignorant vitrol from creationists and absolutists out of touch with reality.
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