Noah (2014)
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Critics Consensus: With sweeping visuals grounded by strong performances in service of a timeless tale told on a human scale, Darren Aronofsky's Noah brings the Bible epic into the 21st century.
Critics Consensus: With sweeping visuals grounded by strong performances in service of a timeless tale told on a human scale, Darren Aronofsky's Noah brings the Bible epic into the 21st century.
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Russell Crowe stars as Noah in the film inspired by the epic story of courage, sacrifice and hope. Directed by visionary filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (c) Paramount
- Rating:
- PG-13 (for violence, disturbing images and brief suggestive content)
- Genre:
- Drama , Classics
- Directed By:
- Darren Aronofsky
- Written By:
- John Logan , Darren Aronofsky. Ari Handel , Darren Aronofsky , Ari Handel
- In Theaters:
- Mar 28, 2014 Wide
- On DVD:
- Jul 29, 2014
- US Box Office:
- $101.2M
- Runtime:
Cast
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Russell Crowe
as Noah -
Jennifer Connelly
as Naameh -
Ray Winstone
as Tubal Cain -
Emma Watson
as Ila -
Anthony Hopkins
as Methuselah -
Logan Lerman
as Ham
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All Critics (215) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (165) | Rotten (50) | DVD (1)
In a single sequence, Aronofsky combines creationism, Darwinian evolution, original sin, the end of days, and radical environmentalism.
For all the high-tech showmanship on display, this retelling of Noah and the Ark marks a serious effort to engage with the Old Testament as a literary text.
In some ways, Noah resembles one of those Kirk Cameron movies about the apocalypse, only with a better cast and more dazzling special effects.
Rock Transformers.
It's overlong and a times sluggish. The fights and battles, designed to give an epic fantasy feel to the movie, are grave miscalculations. And the overabundance of CGI often makes Noah look like a video game.
Darren Aronofsky's film about the Old Testament shipbuilder has been sparking controversy - but there's no denying that the Great Flood, digitized, is a pretty great flood.
Darren Aronofsky's Noah was the most exciting big-budget studio film of 2014. While comic book movies are all the rage, Aronofsky's Noah treats the great flood as the ultimate origin story: the origin of life as we know it.
The film sometimes plays like a Bible story filtered through the lens of a Snow White and the Huntsman -type re-imagining.
Noah isn't exactly the epic that bible-thumpers wished for, but Aronofsky's vision is masterful enough to create truly mesmerizing moments without being swept away by the murky waters of blockbuster boredom.
This is an epic that could easily have gotten lost in spectacle, but Aronofsky has managed to balance things just right, making for a thrilling and touching cinematic experience.
Aronofsky manages to transform a story, hokey on paper and even on reflection, into a spiritual flood-saga that's pretty damned immersive and elemental in its power.
It isn't the changes to the base story that are bothersome. It's the bat-guano crazy embellishments that make little to no sense in the grand scheme of things that do.
Aronofsky's signature grandiosity is too often at odds with -- and diminished by -- the familial melodrama he has created aboard the vessel.
Noah manages to be both reverent and action-conscious, but not strongly either one.
It ranges far, wide and clumsily in expanding its slender source material, but Noah aches with aspiration, its sincerity and ambition virtually leaping off the screen.
It's ultimately clear that the movie could've lost half of its running time without sacrificing any of its important story and character beats...
It's certainly not the sometimes-whimsical Bible story that's told to so many children. Director Darren Aronofsky's 'Noah' is a drama about a tormented man determined to do God's bidding and about people who are ravaging the earth.
Aronofsky makes an intermittently arresting Bible movie
Aronofsky's grand, crazy vision is filled with more awe and reverence than a traditional snoozefest like Son of God, and, in its fun, flawed and chaotic way, Noah is a popcorn flick about the endless wonders of the universe and of the human soul.
Darren Aronofsky upends convention-but stays true to the bible-with this controversial epic.
Pro-vegan and anti-industrial messages aside... as (a) non-Biblical, alternative history version of the Great Flood, there's some interesting stuff going on here.
A water-logged turkey...an epic disaster of truly biblical proportions...Bloated, gloomy, super self-serious and - worst of all - boring, the film is so dull and portentous it's likely to make atheists convert, just so they can pray to God to save them.
There is so much here that is wonderful and strange, my problems with the film are not much more than quibbles. ... I think Noah is Darren Aronofsky's Take Shelter.
Add Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" to the list of Bible-themed film epics ranging from magnificent to stuffy to silly.
An auteurist monument to monomania inspired by Judeo-Christian culture's most famous report of a divine reboot..
A bold, trippy new interpretation of an old, old story, about miracles of varying size and shape, in which we still today might find some new angles of inspiration.
Audience Reviews for Noah
Overblown epic; grandiose filmmaking watered down by self-seriousness.
Game performances, amazing special effects but too cumbersome to get through.
Super Reviewer
It has some glaring flaws, but overall, Noah is an enjoyable movie that is entertaining and thought-provoking. Aronofsky deftly blends his own unique interpretation of the story with the Biblical power and mysticism of the original. The film is a visual treat and features fantastic, powerful performances from Crowe and Watson.
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Interesting take on what the world was like in darkness, when The Creator wouldn't answer man because man was corrupt. That The Creator wanted to end mankind--chilling but frankly not entirely unbelievable. I liked the Watchers--something, literally, out of the stone age. I thought Russell Crowe did a wonderful job as the man entrusted with the most horrible task imaginable--I've seen that kind of single-minded ruthlessness in the cause of supposed goodness: jeez, just look around the world today. I loved Ham and his conflict with his father. Highly highly recommend.
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Noah Quotes
- Tubal Cain:
- You stand alone and defy me?
- Noah:
- I'm not alone.
- Methuselah:
- Well, my boy, I've turned down better scripts in panto! DId you bring berries?
- Tubal Cain:
- Did you really think you could protect yourself from me in that?
- Noah:
- It's not protection from you.
- Noah:
- He said he's going to destroy the world.
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