2006 TEN COMMANDMENTS MOVIE TV
For a few minutes, your TV will look like one of those aquarium-motif screensavers. And then? Well, we get a lot of fish scurrying around, if indeed fish can be said to scurry. In fact, the press release from ABC says the parting of the Red Sea is "renowned."įinally, Moses stands on a cliff overlooking the water, raises his shepherd's staff and the waters begin to vibrate and rumble. So as sea partings go, we're really expecting big things from the Halmis. DeMille, that version is the one we all know best. We remember when Yul Brynner chased Charlton Heston to those shores back in 1956, which was hardly the first time Hollywood told the story, but, under the guidance of the grand master of the grand scale, Cecil B. M and his flock make their way toward the Red Sea. The scene seems to suggest a deep bond between the two, but the screenwriters stop short of having Moses say, "Why can't I quit you, Menerith."įor much of the first of part of the film, we can almost hear Dougray Scott, doing a Jim Caviezel impersonation as Moses, saying, "Wait for it, wait for it" as the Divine Mr. After he loses his temper and kills a would-be rapist, he high-tails it for the desert, but only after a touching goodbye scene with his mother's biological son, Menerith. About two seconds later (there's a lot of telescoping in the film), Moses is grown up and a prince of Egypt. A mean pharaoh who looks like Boy George puts out a contract on infant boys, Moses' mother sets him adrift in the Nile to save his life and he's rescued by an Egyptian princess. Overall, the first of the two parts of the film isn't too bad. While the idea of a giant Ted Danson may be kind of scary, "Gulliver" was rather fun.īut "fun" isn't really the quality you want to see in a "Ten Commandments." It worked well enough in "Noah's Ark," but with infestations of frogs and locusts, rivers turning into blood, drowning Egyptians and God just having it up to here with Moses and his flock every other minute, you really need a more serious approach. One of the things they do particularly well is special effects. founded Hallmark Entertainment) are the very definition of "producer" and, as such, have been the force behind some great entertainment over the years. have been the go-to pere et fils for TV sweeps months for years, with such small-screen blockbusters under their separate or combined belts as "Lonesome Dove," "Gulliver's Travels," "Noah's Ark" and "The Arabian Nights." The Halmis (Robert Jr. On the other end, hire the Halmis to produce. On one end of the spectrum, you can ask brainy directors like Lars von Trier or Mike Figgis to do the job. If you're going to remake "The Ten Commandments," there are two surefire ways to go wrong.