CodyZamboni
This movie is an overlong, boring, tedious slog for the first 2 hours. Just endless scenes of uninteresting people wandering in an uninteresting desert, dealing with unecessary soap opera sub plots,
Movie finally picks up with decent battle carnage involving walls of fire, floods, bow and arrow, stone slinging, and sword stabbing, between hundreds of stuntmen..
Then Lot and his tribe finally get to to be citizens of Sodom. Let the wickedness commence !!!
But it's too little, too late to save this mess.
The few tame scenes in Sodom of sin, depravity, corruption, and fx destruction, are mostly watered down to satisfy the censors,
Overall, a major disappointment given a usually reliable director like Robert Aldrich
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
07/29/23
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Crom W
Another classic bible story, one of the better ones.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
03/20/23
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harri k
I mean, yes, it is naivë and hoakey in its flat religiousity and moralism. Yes, it is frustratingly tame and petty in its treatment of the source material. Yet there are hints of moral ambiguity, layers and deconstruction albeit it all inevitably mushes down to wasp sentiments of good and bad, black and white, faith over reason, and so on. Also, taking liberties from the source material in a rather traditional way, the narrative does create entertaining character arcs and presents intriguing political dynamics, which could have carried the film much further. Some of the parts are unintentionally comedic.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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Terry S
I couldn't help but think that Stewart Grainger should have cut his hair. The special effects were really lame but sure make you appreciate what they can do today !
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
05/20/22
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Typical late-50s/early 60s sword and sandal fare: short on script and believability. The producers should've stayed with the true drama surrounding Lot and his daughters. Sodom and Gomorrah were treasure troves of sin and debauchery longing for a slimy new-wave troupe of post-WWII movie makers to display to the silver screen. Yet, all we're seeing is a sneaky lesbian queen, a battle inserted to pump blood into the anemic script, and the predictable duel at the end. The movie wastes the time it needed to present the actual, more intriguing biblical story. It failed to even pretend to live up to the accuracy provided by The Ten Commandments which was produced only six years earlier. Although the latter movie took a great deal of artistic license, it caught the meaning of the corresponding biblical drama of the Exodus. Sodom and Gomorrah was reduced to a sword & sandal hero flick which teaches nothing and stood for nothing. Even worse (exacerbating the movie's lost messaging), we're indifferent to Ildith's fate when she choose to look back to her devastated home since the merged kingdoms seemed no worse than any other of the time as implied by the movie. A very important point was overlooked and there was no justification, as far as we can see from the movie, for her to feel this great sentiment for her native kingdom. If you remember, the utter historic and legendary sliminess of Sodom and Gomorrah was vividly realized by her turning into a pillar of salt. The movie simply failed to realize that it was the slimy aspects of the city that she missed--even after only a few minutes into the mass exodus. Even after God, Himself, mandated the exodus, she still couldn't part from her weaknesses. After watching the movie, we never learn how and why Sodom and Gomorrah remain as one of the darkest points in human existence through the ages. I can't recommend this movie as standard biblical fare.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/01/23
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ashley h
Sodom and Gomorrah is a disappointing film. It is about the events that lead to the downfall of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Stewart Granger and Pier Angeli give terrible performances. The screenplay is badly written. Robert Aldrich did a horrible job directing this movie. I was not impressed with this motion picture.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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