Life on the Road

No, not that there are now 20 Commandments…

First, however unlikely, a musical version with Val Kilmer in the lead role:

I agree with the many other reviews on Blockbuster.com that said the acting, singing, and stage effects were mediocre…

But what was most disturbing to my family and I was the inaccuracy of the story itself.  And we’re not just talking about making up dialogue to make it a full-fledged story, we’re talking about wholesale changes in a true and well chronicled series of events.

It’s a great story . . . why change it?  And if you do,you might want to say that it’s, “LOOSELY BASED ON the Biblical account of the life of Moses” or something, so we know it’s not something we want to watch.

Then for something completely different, a CGI-Animated version with Christian Slater as Moses:

I’m not crazy about the CGI, personally…  Not that it was bad - in fact it was often quite stunning - just that it often felt like being in a video game.  Maybe that just shows my age.  LOL 

The acting was surprising - Christian Slater brought a depth of character to Moses of which I would not have thought him capable.

I was also very pleased with the storytelling, which was much truer to the Biblical account (even the less “glamorous” or “exciting” bits) than anything else made in the last few decades.

Are there any other good versions out there, besides THE The Ten Commandments?