MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

robin-713-61166 While in Israel I met some Russian Jewish teen's refuges at a youth village that did not understand where or why they were in Israel. The best way to help them was to get them to read the book Exodus. I went Into town and bought the book Exodus in Russian. It came in two Volumes. I gave it to one of the Russian teens. The next day she with a few others came to me and asked if the story about the hero's girl friend was true. She had been raped, cut up in small pieces and put in a sack on a mule's back and sent home. I told yes it was, as a few weeks before I stumble on to the monument for the young women.Today, I help Israel with the Israel Longhorn Project but I need your help to do it. Please go to http://longhornproject.org and help.I corrected as best as I can. I am dyslexic. Making it hard to write.

gring0 A boatload of illegal immigrants are granted entry into a 3rd World country after threatening to blow up their own women and children whilst on hunger-strike. Showing their gratitude, they then embark on horrific terrorist attacks against the beleaguered British (fresh from liberating Belsen and helping free Europe from Nazism) and the indigenous population. Eventually being successful through bombing and killing, they then graciously offer the indigenous population the right to remain in their homes and shops to be treated as "equals" under an alien system. The final speech, ostensibly spoken in front of the two dead (an Arab appeaser and blond 15 year old Jew fortunate enough not to have had her hands and legs cut out and eyes gouged out) describes the speaker as angry enough to bark like a dog before saying, God help him, that he will one day see all living in peace and harmony. Just before going off to kill more Arabs.Only one Arab is presented in a positive light- a fresh-faced American-accented chief who is clearly a good guy as he has no problem with giving his people's land away to those wanting all the land eventually for themselves. Morality is never treated when it comes to the Irgun's terrorism, but rather political expediency. Jews are portrayed as blond and blue-eyed in a way to make Americans at the time, a mere four years after Suez, identify with them (in the book all are portrayed as dark in hair and complexion). Scenes are shot at an excruciatingly-slow pace or just thrown in to reinforce the justification of the terrorists (as in one scene where the Irgun leader asks Mineo to relate his experience in Auschwitz, seemingly for the hell of it). The acting is atrocious, Mineo's in particular. I have no idea why he is held up for praise given the unforgivable emoting he is required to do. But then, with such two-dimensional acting (when showing this in class, my students had no idea what Saint was talking about when she complained about her "accident" whilst driving), that is to be expected. Given that this film was made as propaganda to justify continued abuses of the Israeli state, it is deplorable that it enjoys such a high rating on IMDb.http://tracesofevil.com

Desertman84 Exodus is a war film made produced and directed by Otto Preminger.It was based on the novel of the same title by Leon Uris.The film features an ensemble cast led by Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint together with Ralph Richardson,Peter Lawford,Sal Mineo,Jill Haworth,Lee J. Cobb and John Derek.The screenplay was written by Dalton Trumbo.The screenplay is concerned with the emergence of Israel as an independent nation in 1947. Its first half focuses on the efforts of 611 holocaust survivors to defy the blockade of the occupying British government and sail to Palestine on the sea vessel Exodus. Ari Ben Canaan, a leader of the Hagannah, is willing to sacrifice his own life and the lives of the refugees rather than be turned back to war-ravaged Europe, but the British finally relent and allow the Exodus safe passage. Once this victory is assured, 30,000 more Jews, previously interned by the British, flood into the Holy Land.The film works best in all levels of drama and action.But as a reflection upon history, it is compromised by stereotypes, unpersuasive relationships, and a certain moral ambivalence about issues related to gaining Israeli independence. There are good and exciting sequences.Although it was watchable,the movie is quite too long for 220 minutes length.

LeonLouisRicci It's difficult to know what the thinking was behind this film. From the miscasting to the dull representation of what is, to the Jewish people, the culmination of an historical quest for independence and freedom.The movie is so uninformative, considering its length, and so relentlessly tepid that one can only put the blame, perhaps, on the stilted and bland Hollywood mindset of the 1950's. Why all the blonds? Why are the most powerful elements of the struggle so inept and hazy? The film looks like an uninspired TV Movie and it commits the most grievous of Sins. It does not entertain or enlighten the audience. It is just boring beyond belief.