Ben-Hur (3D)

Brother against brother. Slave against Empire.

This film arrives wearing the mantle of possibly the biggest box office disaster of the year. A remake of the classic 1959 Charlton Heston film, it is the epic story of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army. Stripped of his title, separated from his family and the woman he loves, Judah is forced into slavery. After years at sea, Judah returns to his homeland to seek revenge, but finds redemption. This film is releasing in 2D, 3D and 4DX, this is the 3D version.

124 minutes.
No persons under 13 (Violence).
Action, Adventure, Drama.

Well at least I’m not playing God this time ...

Credits

Cast	Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro, Nazanin Boniadi, Ayelet Zurer, Pilou Aasbaek, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Morgan Freeman
Director	Timur Bekmambetov
Screenplay	Keith R. Clarke, John Ridley, from the novel by Lew Wallace
Music	Marco Beltrami
Cinematography	Oliver Wood
Editing	Dody Dorn, Richard Francis-Bruce, Bob Murawski
Sound formats
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2016
Produced by	LightWorkers Media, MGM, Paramount Pictures, Sean Daniel Company

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Action drama
Language	None
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Fairly frequent and moderate
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 14 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith Ben-Hur rides again ... and comes a cropper.	5
Die Burger Paul Boekkooi Die vierde 'Ben-Hur' is heel skaflik.	10
ScreenIt Jim Judy While not the train wreck some are stating, isn&rquot;t good enough to earn a recommendation.	8
Metacritic.com 33 critics	8
Rottentomatoes critics 151 critics	9
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer How do you fight an idea? By filming a remake that has too few of its own, and tries to cover it up with choppy editing and CGI.	5
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	10
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation	10
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 74 users	9
Rottentomatoes users 16111 users	13
Internet 7753 Netizens Another Hollywood remake...	11
Average .. 45%	9