The original Ben Hur movie with Charleston Heston and Stephen Boyd is one of the greatest Christian classics of all time. So I went with fear and trembling to the remake of the new 2016 remake and I was happily surprised. Here was a movie with great cinematography and unbelievably made a great story even better.
The creative changes in the story and the retelling of this story brought both great memories and new experiences. The historical cultural background of this movie came out more as well as deepened characters who were more complex than the good versus bad characters within the first movie. There was so much more relational building, actual interaction with Jesus and his teachings in this movie, and a different finale that left one with both wonder and stirred emotions on the beauty of reconciliation.
Not only is this movie doing well at the box office but it had much direction and production by Christians in the making of this movie. The quality of the script and filming was great so I hope Christian film makers will do more quality projects like this in the future. They even built a huge spectacular Roman city for the filming of this movie. This is a movie I highly recommend for people to go and see it for themselves.
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