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Sep 13, 2015ManMachine rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Hold your horses, folks! Don't get me wrong. I'm not ridiculing Christianity here. But, Holy Mother of God! The Ten Commandments was gloriously, outrageously, right over-the-top BAD! From some of the most laughable dialogue under the sun to the blatancy of director, Cecil B. DeMille's sexual innuendos, The Ten Commandments has got to be one of the most expensive hack-jobs ever laid down on film. With this being an "Old Testament" story, any references one might expect to mercy, justice and charity (in this particular biblical tale) are clearly out of place here. When I watched this film as a naive child, I was mesmerized, thinking it to be really spectacular comic-book fare. But, now, seeing it as an adult, it was just very, very bad (and ridiculous) comic-book fare. The Ten Commandments was well-crafted, hokey, wooden, hypocritical, and garish junk. Only the most naive, starry-eyed fool would take this film and its preposterous religious message at face value. The Ten Commandments gets a 2-star rating solely for the sake of art. There's no counting how many stars it gets for being the perfect fuel for any heavy-duty drinking party. 'Cause that's the only way this film was meant to be enjoyed - Drunk!