Historical Inaccuracies and Anachronisms

Yes unfortunately the anachronisms were cringeworthy...
The white pants/jeans riding the horse - a short scene but noticeable nonetheless.
We are pretty sure we heard Judah Ben-Hur utter a "wow".
Anachronistic/contemporary sentence structure throughout.

We really wanted to like this but the anachronisms were quite jarring

Understand the challenge in doing a film that blends historical drama/action/spiritual themes - however, thought "Risen" (Joseph Fiennes) was a much better, more interesting and more carefully crafted film.

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The period of enlightenment predominantly took place in the 18th, not 19th, century.

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My favorite anachronism is the Battle of Ionian Sea. After the battle Ben Hur washes ashore in Judeea, having traveled half of the Mediterranean Sea. I think screenwriters never considered looking where Ionian Sea even is.

Yes, I found the facial hair on Romans very annoying - especially the Roman soldier that had only a mustache. Pilate was bad enough with a beard.
(And though I don't know if it was inaccurate - wearing fur embellishments in Jerusalem - sweat much?)

At times, Judah looked like he had just walked out of Old Navy.

I am not sure by 33 AD if full boots were worn by anyone - or were the troops still in sandals and sandal type booties?

This was not an historical documentary. It is a work of fiction, and as such, can have the people wearing and doing anything the writer chooses. If you want to criticize a movie, please base your criticisms on the movie and not your preconceived notions of what the movie should be.

You do forget that all these stories are nothing but Fairy Tales. Jerusalem at it's best gossiping like CNN.

You forget the foolish opening scene with Messala yelling 'Someone help' in the middle of nowhere. Maybe the sequel will have him send a 9-1-1 using smoke signals