I’m a Christian and I think ‘Noah’ deserves a four star review
That review makes me want to--as a fellow atheist friend wrote on Facebook the other day--"Get roaring drunk, go see it, and curse loudly whenever anything happens."
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OK. Met requirements. Read review saw movie first. The movie answers in a kinda biblical way the problems of so few building an Ark, how the animals got there, and how they animals didn't do survival on the Ark.
Cast out angels are cast as builders of ark and given redemption when their task is complete. Stone multi-appendaged Transformers isn't very creative, but, it does keep in line with the biblical proportions of previous movies without having thunderbolts from heaven as the hero's salvation. Emitting a bit of light through the joints is a nice touch which gets validated when they are redeemed as columns of light ascending into the sky.
The animals had begun their journey well before Noah talked to Methuselah and, as we are read, each of these guys lived to be almost 1000 years old and Noah was only 500 when the Creator called on him.
Once on board the animals were given a potion that made them hybenate removing the need for food or policing. Nice touch Creator.
The good-bad schism carried out to the earth and essential needs was graphicly pretty strong stuff. perhaps there should have been more development here.
I was a bit dismayed by the fact that it was Watchers rather than men who took out the evil ones after the rains began and they came to attack the Ark. the symbolism of Noah's actions and those of the evil ones demonstrating brutality could have been expanded to make the plot thicker and more meaningful.
Ham's confusion wasn't really necessary. It would have been more apt if he had acted like Cain. Why suggest redeeming qualities in the one who was to be cast out. But, that's just my prejudice here.
Someone wrote on this thread that the word God was never said in the movie. For that Jon Stewart gives you Ham in the movie Noah:
[video]http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/tregza/haters-of-the-lost-ark[/video]
As an an action movie it's way below
Gladiator (2000 film). As a suspending disbelief movie it's even below
Proof of Life . As a narrative movie it's below
Master and Commander . As a religious movie its below
The Insider (film), all Crowe movies (most of his other movies are better). But, as a moralistic story it's way above
The Bible: In the Beginning which stars John Huston as Noah and God which makes it a 'b' movie.
I give Noah a four for concept and three for realization realization movie.
