Sunday, April 6, 2014

Film Review - Noah (2014)

Noah stars Russell Crowe as the Biblical Hero Noah who is told by God that a great flood is coming to destroy the world so he vows to build an Ark to protect the innocent in the hope that they will start things over again but King Cain (Ray Winstone) has other ideas.

Noah is sadly a film of two distinct halves, the first half of which is interesting in terms of Noah's quest to build his Ark believing that nothing will save them for the violent storm that bears upon them and Crowe is very convincing here as is Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Winstone and Jennifer Connelly who has aged very well I must admit though SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS!!!! pretty much chews the scenery in his limited role and has pretty much become a parody of himself now.

But once that finishes and the rain comes tumbling down the film loses a lot of its momentum and starts to drag on and on about internal squabbles and changes to some of the character arcs that I didn't really care much for, the film also starts to drag a little in terms of its length and as a result, I began to lose interest in the film.

So all in all, Noah has a strong start but ends very anti climatically and some of the character motivations become questionable, skip this one I'm afraid, 1.5 out of 5.

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