Noah review: Moments of brilliance but can't shake sinking feeling

Genre

Action/Adventure, Drama

Running time

138 min

Director

Darren Aronofsky

Screen writer

Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel

Actors

Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson, Nick Nolte, Ray Winstone, Logan Lerman

OFLC rating

M

Year

2014

Language

English

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Noah (M)
138 minutes
★★★☆

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.'' - Brutus, Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3.

Some tide. Even by Hollywood standards, which grow more immodest every year, Noah is big - no less than the destruction of all mankind, save for one man and his family. Now that's a disaster movie, and from an impeccable source, the Book of Genesis, but, as Shakespeare warned, the timing must be perfect.

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