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    Colosseum

    Colosseum

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    Tabletop Game

    In Colosseum each player is a Roman impresario - producing great spectacles in his or her arena in...

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David McK (3496 KP) rated Ben-Hur (2016) in Movies

Nov 20, 2019  
Ben-Hur (2016)
Ben-Hur (2016)
2016 | Drama, History
5
5.9 (11 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Re-make of a re-make, with the first re-make the one that starred Charlton Heston and that - until Titanic came along - I believe held the record for the most number of Oscars for a single movie.

And this is pretty much a straight re-make of that move; pared down somewhat and with Jack Huston's Judah Ben-Hur unable to hold a candle to Heston's take on the same character.

We do, however, still have the same main points from the earlier movie: early 30s AD setting in Jerusalem. Judah forced to become a galley slave after he is wrongly accused of treason by (here) his Roman foster-brother, chariot-racing, his family stricken with Leprosy, miraculous cure following Jesus' crucifixion ...