Ben-Hur

Pros: a few minutes of entertainment from a Welsh Arab, a once-exciting chariot race (that_like_everything_else_here_goes_on_too_long)
Cons: script, length, plausibility, editing, acting, directing, music, special effects

No movie has won more Academy Awards than “Ben Hur,” so it and “Titanic” must be the greatest movies of all time, right? Not hardly! Long ago, I designated “Ben Hur” the worst ...

Pros: Stephen Boyd
Cons: Charlton Heston, aged badly, sooooo boring.

Whenever I talk to people who love movies a common topic of discussion can be to name a loved classic that I despise, now those who have been reading my reviews since I first joined Epinions may think that I would have named ...

Pros: Heston, Boyd, Hawkins, Photography, Score, Direction, Story
Cons: None

Ben-Hur

This is a story of how friends fall out. Judah Ben-Hur is a Jewish prince living in Roman occupied Judea in the first century AD. His boyhood friend Messala, a Roman, is now a tribune in the Roman Army. Messala...

Pros: Almost everything. See review.
Cons: Long, to some. Gruesome at times.

This 1959 epic film is the third film version of Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. It won eleven Academy Awards, an achievement that has not yet been surpassed, and has been equaled but twice: Titanic and ...

Pros: It's great...
Cons: ...but there's too much greatness.

It is hard for me to describe why Ben-Hur (1959) is not one of my favorite movies. It is a great movie, no doubt. But when I think of "Ben-Hur", and I think of why it is not one of my favorite movies, the thought that usually comes to my head is, ...

Pros: Great story, impressive sets and costumes, intelligent dialog and that chariot race.
Cons: The sea battle, and some 50's film making conventions.

I suspect those reading this come from two distinct camps: one, comprised of viewers 40 and older who've seen Ben-Hur at least once in the theatre (though not likely in its intended "Camera 65" presentation), as well as a couple of times on ...

Pros: story, chariot race
Cons: too long, a little boring sometimes

While at my dad's this weekend, I noticed that one of the movies he had was Ben-Hur and since I heard it was one of the best movies of all time, I decided to watch it. I must say, I was somewhat pleasantly surprised. Director William Wyler ...

Pros: One of a kind epic, Heston without his rifles, the chariot race, Griffith
Cons: At times, a little over the top emoting. EXTREMELY long

Forgive me for reducing this legendary movie to such a banal thought, but whenever there are men in miniskirts, I have to wonder. Elizabeth Haffenden (the costume designer) is not available for comment, and I wouldn't go near Heston even with a long...

Pros: One of the Best Movies Ever Made!
Cons: None - this movie has it all!

REVIEW: BEN-HUR

SUMMARY:

I can sum up this movie in one word - FANTASTIC! I have watched this movie several times over the past 20 years and I see something new or realize something different about the movie each time. I would...

Pros: Great acting, great direction, great music
Cons: religious propoganda

General Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur: a Tale of the Christ was first filmed in 1907 as a silent short. In 1925 in was made into a full-length silent feature, the most expensive movie made up to that point.

In 1959 William Wyler (The...

Pros: Everything you would want in a movie is here
Cons: none

Ben-Hur is a spectacular film starring Charlton Heston in the lead and Stephen Boyd as Massala, Ben-Hur's childhood friend who eventually becomes his bitter enemy.

Massala returns to his boyhood home of Judea as a Roman centurion....

Pros: Big, Bold, Beautiful and Well-Crafted
Cons: Some stereotyping and minor weak spots

As a small child in the 1950's, taking the road trip to the Big City of San Francisco to see the "premier" of Ben Hur was quite the experience. I can remember sitting in the second row, (bad choice, got talked into it for Space Odyssey 2001,...

Pros: classic
Cons: none

Ben-Hur

Year of Release: 1959
Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Haya Harareet, Martha Scott,
Sam Jaffe
Director: William Wyler
Writer: Karl Tunberg
Running Time: 212 Minutes (3 hours, 32...

Pros: Powerful themes of compassion conquering hatred, some great action-packed scenes (chariot race, battle scene), great sets and costuming, good use of extras, and a tremendous score by Miklos Rosza
Cons: Somewhat wooden dialogue and performances are at times stiff.

Ben Hur was the most expensive film of its day and still remains the film with the most Oscars to its name, 11 (an honor it now shares along with Titanic), out of 12 nominations (losing only in Screenplay).

Certainly,...

Pros: chariot race scene, cinematography
Cons: lengthy, slow, characters

"Ben-Hur" is a massive, sprawling MGM epic set in the first century AD, during the life of Christ. Directed by William Wyler, the film plods along for most of its 212 minutes, marginally good but lacking in humor, action, or spark. There are...