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It was as bad as the trailer made it look


Who was the idiot that okay'd the cast in this movie? Terrible cast and poorly directed, the second half was a little better, the first half I almost stopped watching but overall just a waste of a movie. I doubt you'll see Huston cast as lead in a big budget film again, this was a bomb and he was really miscast.

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It wasn't that bad but took its time to get going, then it got good.

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Jack Huston I found a perfectly likeable presence on screen. Ben-Hur underwhelming was not really his fault.

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I like Jack Huston but he was severly miscast here. Likable has nothing to do with it.
I suspect if they offered me the role of James Bond I'd take it for the money, but it would be terrible casting. Same with Huston as Ben Hur.

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I was sooo disappointed in this movie. I'm a big fan of the 1959 one which I've seen numerous times.

But I thought the trailer was pretty good. A hundred times better the the movie, as it turned out.

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I was sooo disappointed in this movie. I'm a big fan of the 1959 one which I've seen numerous times.


Hard to replace Chuck Heston in Technicolor.

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You have impeccable taste in movies! 

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