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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Mar 21, 2005
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
Summary: 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
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 8, 2008
Pros: Almost everything. See review.
Cons: Long, to some. Gruesome at times.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 19, 2004
Pros: It's great...
Cons: ...but there's too much greatness.
Summary: 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, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 28, 2004
Pros: Great story, impressive sets and costumes, intelligent dialog and that chariot race.
Cons: The sea battle, and some 50's film making conventions.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 26, 2004
Pros: story, chariot race
Cons: too long, a little boring sometimes
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 8, 2004
Pros: Stephen Boyd
Cons: Charlton Heston, aged badly, sooooo boring.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 19, 2003
Pros: A Clasic movie
Cons: Nothing
Summary: Ben Hur is a clasic movie that it was starring by Charton Heston as Ben Hur. It was made on the fifties. It was on the years of Rome Empire. Ben Hur was a Roman Soldier that made Christian and he after that was slave and at the final he has a sick that I ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 22, 2001
Pros: The classiest movie of all times
Cons: Somewhat patrician
Summary: 'Ben Hur' is the life-story of Juda Ben-Hur,a jewish leader in biblical times.The film directed by William Wyler won 11 academy awards.
The story is about what constitutes life.Is it about sublime things like affection and bonding.Or,is it the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 6, 2001
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
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 25, 2001
Pros: Great acting, great direction, great music
Cons: religious propoganda
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 10, 2001
Pros: The acting, the film's production, the plot-- too many to name in 15 words
Cons: None
Summary:
Maybe.
The first time I saw Ben Hur I was about 12 -- and since then I've never ceased to be fascinated by this wonderful story. It is a movie that, once you've gotten into it (which should take fifteen minutes, if that), you won't want ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 17, 2000
Pros: Heston, Boyd, Hawkins, Photography, Score, Direction, Story
Cons: None
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 17, 2000
Pros: One of the Best Movies Ever Made!
Cons: None - this movie has it all!
Summary: REVIEW: BEN-HUR
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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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 18, 2000
Pros: Charlton Heston, good story, very well done for the time it was filmed
Cons: a little long...don't drink too much soda!
Summary: Way back in the good old days, I remember going to the chariot races with my Daddy and watching the men race around in circles. I always wondered if they knew they weren't getting anywhere...they were just going around in circles. Then one day I heard ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 3, 2000
Pros: great acting, great action.
Cons: a little too devout at times.
Summary: I was in my early teens when one of the movie theatres in Calcutta decided to include this in their schedule (may be the current Hollywood fare was too pricey for them). And thanks to their inspired choice I got to see Ben Hur as it was meant to be seen: ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 2, 2000
Pros: opinion contains minor details about the movie
Cons: stephen boyd and charlton heston at their best
Summary: When I first watched Ben Hur, I was 14 (Now I am 20). The effect the movie had on me was magical. With its superb performances, touching background music,memorable action scenes specially famous chariot race sequence, and delicacy of handling religious ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 11, 2000
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.
Summary: 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, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 6, 2000
Pros: Everything you would want in a movie is here
Cons: none
Summary: 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. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 1, 2000
Pros: Excellent visual movie with great performances from all actors.
Cons: Maybe a little long for many.
Summary: Charlton Heston stars as the Price of Judea, Ben Hur, who confronts the conquering Romans and is forced into slavery. Working as a gallery slave, he saves the life of a Roman Nobleman and is adopted by him. He becomes a respected citizen and a famed ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 16, 2000
Pros: Fantastic acting, excellent plot
Cons: none
Summary: This has got to be one of the best movies ever made!
Of course about anything with Charlton Heston is well worth watching, But
he out does himself in this. He is an excellent actor, and gets a chance to shine in this movie.
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