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Noah (2014)
This is NOT a true story, or at least a very inaccurate one.
I attended the movie premiere of "Noah" last Friday night in Mexico and took the whole family with me. After watching the trailer I supposed that it would be an awesome film that we could enjoy.
Well, I was wrong.
I remember the opening in "Fargo" (1996): "THIS IS A TRUE STORY"; and a lot of movies presumable inspired by "true events". This is a really inaccurate film that should start with the opening: "This is a film loosely-based on Noah" or something like: "FYI: This is not the Noah from Genesis".
Since the very beginning I noticed a lot of inconsistent details regarding to the TRUE story. One of the things that I found really disquieting is the change of the story about Noah and his family. Noah's wife and the three wives of his adult sons entered the ark. In the movie, only one son entered with his wife who is pregnant of two twin girls; who I supposed would became the wives of the other two sons, who are a couple of teenagers!
I really like the Noah described in Genesis 6:8 "The Lord was pleased with Noah"; and found very difficult to sympathize with Russell Crowe's character. Especially when my 7 year old daughter whispered "Noah is a very mean man! Why does he want to kill the baby girls? Is he crazy dad?"
How to rate this film? I gave it a 7 because of the top-notch cast: Again in the leading roles the couple Crowe-Connelly, a bit of Anthony Hopkins and a great performance of Emma Watson. The special effects are also great!
In summary; if you have in mind to watch an accurate version of Noah you will be disappointed. As a Christian myself, on Sabbath day I spent some time retelling the REAL story to my kids who were confused with the movie.
The Film Noah should be listed in IMDb under the genre of Science Fiction.