Title: Great story, lame movie
Review: Hokey is right. This film now seems terminally dated, with stilted dialogue, cheesy flashbacks, implausible female characters, and all the narrative energy of a dead flashlight battery. The only high points are some action scenes and comic relief provided by the great Israeli actor Topol (playing an Arab sympathetic to the Israeli cause).Why hasn't anyone ever made a GREAT movie about Israel's fight for independence? "Exodus" is marginally superior (I like Paul Newman better than Kirk Douglas), but burdened by a glacial pace.
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