The Ten Commandments
ABC | Release Date: April 10, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
39
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
6
Negative:
8
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Christian Science MonitorGloria Goodale
Season 1 Review: [It] is perilously close to Hollywood hokum, but manages to rise above it by featuring the ever-interesting Dougray Scott in the lead role of Moses. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: Holds its own against the 1956 classic. Read full review
70
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: It's pretty darned good. Read full review
63
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
Season 1 Review: This new four-hour version... trims back the pageantry and tries for a degree of modern psychological realism. [17 Apr 2006, p.43]
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: Despite such bloody activity, it's a long trudge through the desert to the Promised Land. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn
Season 1 Review: It becomes a bit tedious, which is something this story never should be. [14 Apr 2006, p.71]
50
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: The Old Testament just shouldn't be this dull. Read full review
50
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: Interesting take on the biblical story, but if you prefer your Moses as a nicer guy, may I suggest you skip tonight and tomorrow night's new epic and wait for the real Moses, Charlton Heston Read full review
50
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: If Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 film was the Barnum & Bailey Big Tent version of the story of Exodus, this is the snippy little art house version - smarter (perhaps), a lot more accurate (perhaps) and indisputably duller. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteKaren Carlin
Season 1 Review: Midway through night two, however, the action begins to drag. Read full review
30
Chicago TribuneSid Smith
Season 1 Review: Straightforward and earnest in its storytelling, it is weakened by unsubtle acting and an emotional temperature at times so overwrought as to border on spoken opera. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: Thou shalt not watch. Read full review
10
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: This new version violates the primary commandment of epic filmmaking, biblical or otherwise: Thou shalt not bore. Read full review
10
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: Portrayed by actor Dougray Scott, Moses is so lacking in leader-like charisma and confidence that he seems ready to break into tears at every sand dune. Read full review
10
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: It's a bore, bore, bore. Read full review
10
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: The acting generally ranges from over the top to flat-out bad. Read full review
10
SlateTroy Patterson
Season 1 Review: An oddly tedious affair. Read full review
0
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: You might think that, considering the technical progress made in the past five decades, at least the special effects in the new version would be good. Oh you would be so wrong. Read full review
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