I'll start with a good one. The trailer didn't cheat - the movie has really good special effects. Falling angels from the sky, the views of seething water during the flood are fascinating. It is a pity that this magnificence manifests itself in just a couple of scenes. And the rest is a mess.
Plot. He relates to the legend of Noah in the same way as Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes to Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. That is, the names of the characters and the general idea remained - the flood, the ark, each creature a pair, etc. Smaller things, like Noah's relationship with people, his family history, how the ark was built, were changed. And not for the better. People are suddenly divided into good and bad, so you don't know where. The land, as shown in the film, was scorched and barren, and the people inhabiting it, poor and hungry. But hunting is a terrible sin. You can kill your neighbor and eat it, but not the animal. What eloquently says Noah himself, slaughtering three hungry hunters to death and honorably burying the unknown animal they killed. Hunters he, presumably, left to rot in the desert - also animals to the delight. Magic and transformers have a place here too. Otherwise, as a sorcerer, Noah’s grandfather can not be called – he puts to sleep, heals, brings visions, just like a pagan priest. And fallen angels differ from transformers only in that they turn not into steep wheelbarrows, but into ordinary boulders.
Characters. If you can still reconcile with the free retelling of the legend, then the characters really infuriate. Especially Noah. At the beginning of the film, he can be mistaken for a strange wanderer - forbids children to tear flowers, because it is sinful to mutilate the creation of God, for the same reason he slaughters hunters to protect the scaly deer ... He's a strange man. However, as the film progresses, he becomes more and more a religious fanatic. For the sake of fulfilling God’s wishes, or rather according to his own interpretations of his vague hints, he is ready to die himself and kill his family. Even a woman with two babies, Noah's grandchildren, by the way, because she dared to give birth to them without God's consent. A vile man with vile views of religion. However, the Americans, judging by the fees, liked it.
His family is astounded by his humility and irritated as Noah. Of all, only a sorcerer grandfather and a barren girl evoke some semblance of sympathy. The girl was disappointed in the end. Righteousness may consist in obedience to both God and the religious fanatics who shout about it, but its behavior remains unclear. Maybe I have a different idea of righteousness.
Overall, the film is disgusting. Maybe this is the director’s views on religion, maybe he was made so to please the American public, maybe it reflected a political orientation (killing in the name of God/country/president is good), maybe he was removed just for the sake of a scandal that he can raise. But I didn't like it.
3 out of 10
For good special effects
Original