Noah (2014)

Absolutely greatly shows the story of Noah and his three children, and their life before, on, and shortly after the landing of the Ark upon the mountains, true to the book, without going into outright incestuous mode (unlike the book), shows you how violent and insane any of the religious fiction really is, and of course it's not pretty to find out something like that about yourself, and your so-called prophets - thus the bad reviews and downvotes.

Noah is chosen by God to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world. Noah is definitely not one of the best religion driven film i've ever seen but it's definitely one of the less bad ones and in terms of acting everyone did their part quite well, the visauals were also pretty damn good but unfortunately the film makes some choices that kind hurt it (especially the gian rock creatures weren't needed) but it's at least way better than 'Mother' and makes much more sense also even tho it's no masterpiece itself either. (7/10)

If they did the movie more like the originial events in the Bible it would be more beautiful. Did you know that the duration of time that Noah tried to convince the people to be righteous was 102 years? Did you know the pouring rain was boiling - rain of 100 degrees celsius (212 Frabheit). If they did it like the Bible it would ne more deep and beautiful. Instead that was just half action that didn't make much sense. For example, in the Bible, Noah knew what he should do. God told him that. Second, The creatures that were in the movie are complete nonsense that doesn't exist in the Bible at all. Third, Noah built the arc himself (the effort of building the arc, should have made up for his sins). ect.

I've noticed that Darren Aronofsky, the director of this clunker, has only one other film to his credit so far, another flop called Mother. Does this mean that the money men will send him the way of Michael Cimino who quietly disappeared after Heaven's Gate? Surprising as he made two pictures I loved, The Wrestler and Black Swan. What went wrong? Well I'd advise no one over the age of thirteen waste precious movie time on this dud. I was brought up on the bible stories, not that I'm religious, but this pic really has little to do with the traditional story other than the main character is called Noah and he's building an ark, which actually looks like a long oblong box. I understand from what I've read that the Transformer like rock creatures here were meant to be some kind of angels but in all honesty by the time they arrived I couldn't care less about the rest of the film and didn't really have a clue as to what was going on. Anthony Hopkins turned up as he invariably does these days, and it reminded me of all those has been British MP's who turn up at the House of Lords each day to collect their £300. I rest my case. One star out of ten as I can't go any lower. Is Russell Crowe getting hard up for a buck? Oh! and Emma Watson is just a wooden here as she was in the Harry Potter pics. Poor young lady has a long way to go to create any screen prescence I'm afraid.