Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
My rating: 4 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Paramount/Warner Bros.)
Cecil B. DeMille brought together all of his past experiences for his final film and made the ultimate Biblical epic. The first half tells the story of Moses from his birth as a child of Hebrew slaves to his ascension to the prince of Egypt. While it occasionally gets bogged down in palatial intrigue, it's always at the service of moving the story forward. By comparison, the second half moves at a lightning pace, with a series of now-classic scenes highlighted by the parting of the Red Sea. However, my favorite scene has always been one of nightmares: the green mist of death that crawls through the city taking the lives of the first born of Egypt.
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