Except the parting of the Red Sea itself happens without anything like grandeur. And Moses, appointed by God to free them, is in a pickle. In the film, Moses' brother, the brawny Pharaoh Ramses (a bald and heavily mascara'd Joel Edgerton), is bearing down with soldiers and chariots on a mountain pass - safety be damned! - having reconsidered his decision to release Egypt's 400,000 slaves en masse. The parting of the Red Sea has always been the biblical story's climax, and it's certainly one of the Old Testament's flagship spectacles. Moses, of course, was the Egyptian prince of mysterious parentage who led the Hebrews out of B.C. Prominently in the TV spots for Ridley Scott's new film, Exodus: Gods and Kings, which stars Christian Bale as Moses and opens Friday areawide.
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