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John Huston adapted the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis in this mostly silly film that takes us from Creation through Noah's Ark through Abraham's near-sacrifice of son Isaac. This is one of Huston's more personally distant projects, à la Annie or Victory; and for the most part you'd barely know there was even a director involved. On the other hand, Huston does provide some of the only liveliness on screen, playing Noah. --Tom Keogh

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1.0 out of 5 stars if adam & eve were this dull, they 'd never have multiplied, April 23 2004

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thank god (pun intended)that the bible characters werent really this over inflated and boring because if they were, they would have never had the energy to recreate, to be fruitful and to multiply.
the where would be?
if disney or some other company were to take their fairy tales this seriousely they be laughed off the planet.

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3.0 out of 5 stars FIRES BELOW ....., May 19 2004

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EXCEPT for the MAGNIFICENT score by TOSHIRO MAYUZUMI ... this one does not quite hold up as it was promised. Granted ... it IS different ... lots of hoopla during the filming - after all we would be seeing Adam & Eve [variously] buffish ...

BUT the producers must have spend quite a fortune on EYE MAKEUP .... Ye, Gods, even the kids are sporting green or vaguely lavender eye-shadow - as for NIMROD's golden brows!

AVA GARDNER does shine as SARAH - unafraid of unflattering lighting or angles, but she was and still is quite special, and GEORGE C. SCOTT does have a few pithy moments .... the make-up though! BRINGING UP THE REAR - so to speak is Peter O'Toole as Triplet, blue-eyed Angels of Wrath [!], Richard Harris - star rising ["This Sporting Life"] as Cain, Zoe Sallis as the 'other woman' in Abraham's life, Stephen Boys [utterly wasted] as Nimrod, John Huston as a bemused, befuddled and bewildered Noah [nice comic turn though], and somewhere in there a Young Franco Nero!

COSTUMING is dreadful - pity for this almost completely Italian Production. And the famous SODOM AND GOMORRAH sequence? Pale Fellini or is it George Romero? The styrofoam blasted 'Wife of Lot' - really!

WISH the score was available on CD - MAYUZUMI went on to score Huston's "Reflections in A Golden Eye" - somewhat better fare.

DVD sound is VERY ODD - stereo? Color is quite washed out too - pity - this one could be wonderfully restored in full 5.1 or even DTS - it is as close to an epic as we'll ever come!

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3.0 out of 5 stars A NICE REFRESHER, May 10 2011

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This review is from: Bible: In the Beginning [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

GREAT PICTURE QUALITY I WAS LOOKING FOR A REFRESHER TO THE BEGINNING OF MAN ON EARTH AND I GOT IT PICTURE QUALITY WAS GOOD BUT NOTHING COMPARED TO THE BLU RAY REMAKE OF THE TEN COMMANDANTS SOUND QUALITY WAS MUCH BETTER THAN THE NON BLU RAY VERSION LETS NOT FORGET JUST HOW OLD THIS MOVIE IS

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4.0 out of 5 stars A star-studded, somewhat kooky dramatization of Genesis 1-22
The Bible ... in the Beginning is a most interesting motion picture. Over the course of almost three hours, the people and events of the first twenty-two chapters of the Book of... Read more

Published on Jun 27 2006 by Daniel Jolley

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost perfect
I liked the movie in all parts except for two. I'll start with the positive things.

Another reviewer mentioned it was a little slow in the beginning, and that is true, but if... Read more