Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Starring: Jack Huston, Marwan Kenzari, Nazanin Boniadi
Release: August 12th, 2016
A lot of bad movies & TV shows come to mind when I watch this trailer: Exodus: Gods and Kings, 300: Rise of an Empire, Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Is it meaningful that they all have colons and subtitles? Is that a clue of some sort? It might be, but Ben-Hur has a hyphen instead and might be just as bad. It’s like a Zack Snyder movie, but directed by the guy who did Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Hey, another colon and another bad movie, what in the hell is going on? Anyway, throwing in a few good actors won’t be enough to trick us into watching this movie. Morgan Freeman, Pilou Asbæk (A War), Rodrigo Santoro (speaking of 300); no thank you, can’t fool me, this is a thumbs-down film.