Ben-Hur

8.5/10


"Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength." I thought this quote was an accurate depiction of the whole movie. Throughout the film I felt that Ben never forgave Messala for making him a slave and hate and revenge kept Ben alive through the whole movie. Although he may have tried as hard as he could to get back to his family that was a duty he was supposed to do back in those days, but the reason he wanted to get back so bad was to have his revenge on Messala.



Judah Ben-Hur

In this story that I actually enjoyed thoroughly we see a man named Ben-Hur who doesn't like the Roman Empire and refuses to follow what they stand for. In a small little nut shell the movie is a man is sent into slavery and through hard work and determination Ben gains his freedom and returns home and seeks revenge through an elaborate chariot race. Also a lot of bad has happened to Bens family which only fuels him more in wanting to kill Messala. His father loses his ability to walk, his mother and sister become lepers in the prison

 In this movie we meet such names as Pontius Pilate, Judah Ben-Hur, Messala, and even Jesus himself who I don't believe talked in the whole movie. Judah Ben-Hur was played beautifully by Charlton Heston with a lot of emotion and poise. Messala was played by Stephen Boyd and I thought he played a very good cocky, mean Roman. An enjoyable character I thought was Hugh Griffith who played Sheik Llderim. A quote from him made me laugh a bit "One God, that I can understand; but one wife? That is not civilized."

Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars and I think it could win more. The cool thing I saw about the movie is that it didn't seem old by any means, I mean sure the graphics weren't up to par, but the story could have been made by a now a days producer. The movie has a running time of 212 minutes long and if I had to put this movie in a genre I don't think I would be able to due to the fact that it has so many different parts to it that I couldn't do it.

If you are between the ages of 16 and 115 I think that you would like this movie. It was an enjoyable yet long movie with lots of twists and turns. You would like this.