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Overall this is a decent film. Compared to the book, the film is definitely intended to evoke more sympathy for the Jewish plight in Europe after WWII, considering it focuses almost entirely on the DP camps in Cyprus, whereas the book devotes equal attention to the DP camps and the actual political and military maneuvering involved in building the state of Israel. One note definitely in favor of the film is that it's depection of the Exodus incident follows the historical facts a little bit more accurately. All in all, still a pretty good film, glad I bought it.
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Though not in the same class as the David Lean films of the era, Exodus still tells a weighty tale. Set in the Mediterranean and Mid-East right after World War Two, this story of Jewish refugees and the struggle to establish Israel seems in the twenty-first century both fascinatingly historic and also sorrowfully naive. I kept wondering what the central characters from the 1940's would have thought had they been able to see the future and glimpse what their idealistic experiment in colonization would set in motion over the next sixty years. Paul Newman has great presence in this movie, and is particularly pleasing when he privately mocks the bigoted British officer who claims he can "always spot the face of a Jew." However it is Saul Mineo, playing a displaced Jewish teen, whose on-screen anger at the world steals the show from its stars. Exodus moves slowly but still manages to exclude an excess of depth from its plot. I also knew almost from the start that the innocent blonde Danish girl was surely marked for sacrifice, and this almost seemed tedious. As I watched Exodus I often contemplated what the film might have been in the hands of David Lean, or even a young Stanley Kubric, because there was something choppy about the final product, especially in the ways scenes were so obviously spliced together in an attempt to give the illusion that a conversation was going on when in actuality actors were speaking lines not to one another but to an empty set. It was little things like that more than even its unnecessarily long run-time that brought Exodus from classic to near-classic. Even its soundtrack lacked the force of a masterpiece.
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A very well made movie depicting the early days of Israel. Leon Uris did a great job putting it in print. Robert Newman did the main character justice
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I wont even go into the story line or the actors roles. I want to ..I have to tell everybody about the transfer to DVD of this classic movie. The picture looks like a bad VHS copy done by an amatuer! The sound.....oh my God the sound is absolutely horrible! I watched this on my Sony 36 inch tv and I immediately cleaned my DVD player thinking there was something wrong with it! I adjusted the sound on my Sony ES (Professional Grade) Reciever several times and into several modes from Mono to Theatre EX to basic stereo and nothing would improve it. MGM be ashamed!! LOUIS B MAYER is rolling over in his grave!!!
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The One Star is not for the film but for MGM Home Video's abominable DVD transfer. What a disgrace! How MGM could release this epic film in such a fashion is beyond belief. The image is virtually unwatchable. I'm surprised more readers on this site haven't complained about how this famous movie has been treated by MGM Video. This DVD edition does not represent the movie whatsoever. Hopefully a remastered DVD edition will come out in the not too distant future to rectify the problem.
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