Aside from the awful American Accents --Dennis Hopper and Liz Hurley. The scenes are played in 'ruins' which wouldn't have been ruins in the time the story was set. It's way too long. And there's too much sack cloth and not enough flesh! Publicity for the film shows Samson and Alessandro Gassman shirtless! Come on, this movie STINKS. A ROTTEN TOMATO.
share...but there have been many other bad historical/religious movies but this one stinks for many reasons including the ones you mention.
shareLiz Hurley is not American, nor does she use an American accent in this film.
She is British, and speaks with her usual accent in this film.
Dennis Hopper, however, is American, as is Eric Thal.
Having said that, though, what is wrong with American accents? Are British or other European accents - such as those of everyone else in the film - somehow preferable?
As far as your contention that the "ruins" are a problem, there are many people in many places in the world today that live in villages that are in the same sort of condition as the village of Tzora in this film (the only place in the film that I can imagine you calling "ruins").
Now, the building materials that the structures of the real Tzora was made from would've been quite different (as would the surrounding landscape), but I imagine its general condition was not too much different from that of the fictional Tzora seen in this film.
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First of all, Liz Hurley has a British accent, not an American one. Second, why are you basing your conclusions off of the amount of flesh shown? That has nothing to do with quality.
I do agree with you that the movie was rather poorly made, however. The movie is too long, and the events in Samson's life are presented out of order from the way they actually happened in the Bible.
I happened to enjoy the movie. I don't think it was too long. Next you will say that The Bible done by Roma Downey was too long. So if things were out of order, so what? I am a devout Christian and I enjoyed it tremendously.
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