Russell Crowe doing bible stories, Ray Winstone doing a hammy Hollywood riff on Shakespearean villainry and Anthony Hopkins dialling it in, all surrounded by $150M of effects? The god botherers will be offended by the liberties taken with the story, the non-botherers will have no interest in seeing bible stories retold with computers, and the whole thing will be a massive and extremely expensive flop.
2:26 was plenty to tell me that nothing Aronofsky might be able to do stands a chance of resisting the awful earnestness of Russell Crowe trying to do important.
