Morgan Freeman – who’s still going at the age of 79 – does little to impress here, as his character, Ilderim, does little more than pace through the motions of an enabler to Jack Huston’s Judah Ben-Hur. The sets, too, exude a particular fakeness, whether it’s what we see in the foreground or the shoddily slapped together green screen.īut despite creating a reboot that nobody was crying out for and a set of costumes and locales that wouldn’t even convince a child, there are yet more calamities worth noting. Lots of talking and an attempt to build conflict are thwarted by a clean-looking aesthetic that appears so untouched that it’s obvious everyone has come straight from wardrobe.

It’s worrying that in what is dubbed an ‘action-adventure’, there is very little of either. Ben-Hur tragically misses the mark by a long shot. With Game of Thrones proving so popular over the past several years, it seems every era-driven/fantasy drama that hits the big screen is in some way attempting to recreate its atmosphere and appeal. Timur Bekmambetov directs a film that, even from the moment it begins, comes across as a particularly sterile, painfully staged go at a period piece.

Who were the people that wanted to see an 11–time Oscar winner from 1959 recreated for the oblivious millennial? But the intended audience is perhaps the least of this movie’s worries. Watch Ben-Hur (2016) online in the UK: Amazon Prime / Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / TalkTalk TV / Rakuten TV / Google Playīen-Hur is perhaps the finest example of a remake no one wanted. Cast: Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Morgan Freeman

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