BeckyandJesus Unusual version but bought it was "decent". Great filming, music and scenery. Still disappointed the trailer made it seem better than it was. Some parts are left out from the bible. The biggest disappointment was the absence of lifting of the bronze serpent. I don't understand why they leave this out of versions?Acting was great. They did choose great actors. I did not like the casting of Moses however. No "warmth" or tenderness to him. Pharaoh was superb casting. Parts seem drastically "rushed"...suddenly Moses was old in the last...minute. Nothing leading to that really at all. Nothing done to him to make him look old apart from a terrible wig. Some others have mentioned the rushing. I agree also with others, that they depicted Moses as lack of faith, and that God wasn't around. The fiery pillar was seen only briefly too. Seemed to be leading into something then died in story.Some weird things are in it. The manna from heaven suddenly appears as weird circles on the ground. What was that about? There was also no quails! That I saw anyway?? Then Joshua seems to be doing yoga refusing to battle. That was weird. Oh and a nuclear explosion vision?! What?!Moses is depicted as being an angry screaming person. No love. Got into a fight and near strangled Joshua. WHAT THE?! "Golden calf" looked like a school art project. Wasn't even completely gold. And no they didn't break it up into pieces. Ark of the covenant was a straw box thing. Some parts were well done such as the fiery pillar and the parting of the Red Sea was great. I can tell they spent a lot of time with the fight scenes. Too bloody for me...they should've spent more time with the plagues those were blink and you miss it and other scenes. More time spent on fights and war most of the time. Apparently the company that made this made the terrible "noah's ark" (1999 with Jon Voight) movie I saw briefly a year or so ago..which was so awful and total mockery and blasphemy I stopped within about ten minutes. It was made into a totally new story. The Ten Commandments wasn't near as bad as that but worth mentioning, I thought the 1995 version (Ben Kingsley) was more memorable despite that being not 100% accurate and erasing stuff (and adding stuff). Was a disappointment so rating it a 6.

drystyx "Literary license" is used in nearly all films, even historical films. And when the History is close to prehistoric, as in the case of Moses, then more literary license can be expected.This version of "The Ten Commandments" gives us a more doubting Moses than we're used to. It delivers on the miracles, so it isn't entirely Atheistic, but gives a somewhat more Agnostic view of Moses. If not for the miracles, we would think the voices are truly in his head when God speaks.This version of Moses has him questioning God, yet for some reason we don't understand his devout desire for power that he shows when he decides he'd rather lead people in the desert than go home with a beautiful wife and a caring family.There is much bloodshed, as there is in the story of Moses. True to literature, he doesn't have qualms about killing women and children. No real explanation is given for this, but then no explanation is given in the Bible, either, except for blind submission to God's will.The film doesn't try to answer what God's will is. It does give us the explanation of a mostly passive God. Like most of us who read the Bible, Moses is confused by "I am that I am", and the film helps establish his rendering a meaning to that. This version shows a God who acts at times with miracles, but insists on humans doing a lot of work, and a lot of people are hurt. We don't know why. The film doesn't try to justify it, nor try to condemn it.

kindofhere So, I haven't actually seen this movie, but the last person's comment was that Moses is made out to be a whiner, and that later in the movie he has the believers slaughter the unbelievers and cuts a second set of tablets. If that's the case, I really want to see this, because that's far more biblically accurate than the deMille's movie. In the Bible Moses *was* a whiner to begin with, and when the golden calf incident occurred, he had the tribe of Levi kill about 3000 people, and then God told him to cut new tablets to replace the ones he had broken. Just thought I'd say it to clarify that yes, it actually is in there, no matter how unpleasant we may think it.

fatla00 I found this this version to be fairly interesting. It had pretty good acting and the story, well, it's The Ten Commandments. The story got a little low at times but it brought it back up and maintained an interesting and want-to-know-what-happens-next thought. I thought that the Narrorator that comes on every so often to explain things was a bit odd. It pulls you out of the story to hear what he has to say when it would be much better if they just showed it. I don't know how much they added to the story but then again, this isn't really my subject. All in all, I believe that ABC did a really nice job putting this mini-series together.