Title: Disappointing compared to the book...
Product review: I was very disappointed in this movie. I should have known from the instant it was pronounced "good for the whole family" that it wouldn't be a filtered and weak version of the book. The book was amazing. I really enjoyed it because it went above and beyond the normal story of Queen Ester. The movie cut out half the book and took out all the violence in an effort to make yet another movie full of good, clean family fun.However, the costumes and the acting were very good. They should have had more of Peter O'Toole, though. This movie definitely had great potential, especially with Sharif and O'Toole part of the cast. However, by taking out half the book and editing it for content, we loose a lot of the story, and this movie just becomes one of the many Queen Ester movies.
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