Noah (2014)

Stars	User	Rating
20	jmarkthespot	60 _54th
Were there rock-angel-Transformers voiced by Nick Nolte in the bible? I got NOAHDEA
17	Luna6ix	79 _69th
Basically Aronofsky came up with the biblical story of Noah, as told by a ten year old with an overactive imagination, who was told the story by a ten year old with an overactive imagination, who was read the story by a priest who, incidentally, was having a stroke while reading a badly water damaged copy of the bible. And you know what? That's a pretty entertaining game of telephone right there. It's got Noah, it's got water, and...um rock monsters. You're gonna love it.
11	r.Din	35 _4th
Aronofsky has Jumped the Ark.
9	Ytadel	7 _83rd
This pretty much kicked ass. It's my favorite movie of 2014 as of April. I'm a stone cold atheist, but this movie proved that the Bible can be a fount for great onscreen storytelling provided it's approached with edge and texture and grit and emotion which "Christian" movies almost always steer miles clear of. In fact, after my screening of this, there were elderly Christians muttering their disapproval. Well, God's Not Dead is playing down the hall; I'll take Aronofsky's vision, please.
8	Mentaculus	42 _17th
The entirety of my viewing I kept asking myself Why this was made. It's too off-script for a Christian audience, too religious for the blockbuster audience, too mystical for the Jewish audience, too campy for the adults and too adult for the kids. Luckily time will wash this one away as a mistake. On the plus side, Nick Nolte has finally been typecast as a rock.
8	ewp805	75 _60th
I, for one, welcome our new CGI golem overlords.
8	DavidBlast	30 _13th
Dino dogs! Stone transformers! The battle of Helm's Deep! Noah boss fights! Deplorable CGI and compositing! Seizure inducing stop-motion merging evolution with fantasy! Misogyny! Winstone literally eating species into extinction! Emma Watson's acting! If you ever had any doubt whether there is a God or not, then clearly this movie should settle matters. No God would allow something that silly, to be retold in a way this stupid.
8	MikeH	12 _3rd
Boring! Dire! Depressing! Pseudo-intellectual! Miserable! Boring! Monsters! Fighting! Angry men! Crying women! Men fighting and women giving birth at the same time! To twins! Boring! Russell Crowe is sad! Frustrated! Conflicted! Serious! Miserable! Boring! Transformers plus 'biblical gravitas'=Noah=formulaic drivel. I felt the full weight of mankind's boring, sinful and misguided past weighing heavily on my shoulders as I struggled to stay awake for 138 minutes.
7	mwgerb	61 _69th
As awe-inspiring as it is ridiculous, as powerful as it is laughable. Case in point: the Nephilim being interpreted as rock-angel-Ents bordered on hilarious, but their redemption was a genuinely meaningful moment. Possibly Aronofsky's most uneven film; you might be better off rewatching The Tree of Life or Last Temptation for a more transcendent religious experience, but there are some truly provocative ideas and imagery here that are not to be missed.
6	chadisdanger	51 _4th
The last thing I wanted this to be was uninspired blockbuster fare, but as much as I squint my eyes I can't see much else. Aronofsky is just unable to balance the many things he throws in here, including earnest mythology, wild sci-fi/fantasy epic, sober psychological drama and even melodramatic morality play. That makes it sound like a possibly fascinating misfire but instead it just plays as a typical Russell Crowe epic with only two or three truly inspired sequences. A real disappointment.
6	Bunken	60 _52nd
The Creator and Russell Crowe vs. Ray Winstone and Mankind. I rooted for Winstone while I was checking my Bet365 app for updated live odds on whether Noah would finish his boat in time, how old Metusalem would become and whether or not Hermione would have a boy or a girl. Just to name a few... An extra shout out goes to whoever made it rain at the exact time I stepped out of the cinema.
5	BillyShears	85 _86th
Sorry you gotta go on a cruise ship and repopulate the earth with Emma Watson. Cartoon dust cloud The Genesis montage was phenomenal.
5	Shadrik	59 _25th
As Aronofsky gets his chance to go all out on the visuals on a big budget, the finished product isn't nearly as fascinating as his previous, smaller films were. There is still some of the creativity that defined his previous films, but all you see are the chances he missed. A fascinating, dirty society, so evil that is deserved to get wiped from the earth - all we get are a couple of shots. A main character ridden to madness by his fanaticism - delivered through long and boring conversations.
5	FrederikA	60 _50th
I appreciate it managed to piss off religious zealots across the board, but I have a hard time seeing who Aronofsky is trying to please. The answer is probably "too many", since the Noah is all over the place; sometimes bronze age mythology, sometimes allegorical and reflective, sometimes plain fantasy. It gives (hammers home) a decent message about religion and importance of choice towards the end, but this rings fairly hollow after the epic genocide we've just witnessed.
5	MontyCircus	40 _37th
One of the strangest movies I've ever seen. Seemingly endless fight scenes that bored me. And then there's Genesis Prime and his pals. None of the characters were fleshed out. It's as if they took a dozen screenwriters, had them all write lots of fight scenes, and then mashed them together. And why is it all so grim? So very, very grim?
4	djross	40 _26th
Environmentalist parable as if conceived by Travis Bickle, wrestling with the desire for a real rain to come and wash the scum off the streets. It may be admirably audacious, but the sounds and images are often conventional, and the heavy-handed melodrama continuously spells everything out in capital letters. Old Testament severity but also a decidedly New Testament preoccupation with original sin. Perhaps it was unlikely I'd find this very involving, but it seems surprisingly artless as well.
4	Dean Franz	20 _21st
"A stern, disciplinarian superbeing slays all of the undesirables in a massive, world-spanning holocaust leaving only the pure, above-water people (let's call 'em the "übermenschen") to repopulate the earth with their aryan seed. Except for the one jewish guy in the entire cast, who goes off to wander the earth. The End. And tomorrow, mommie will read you the story of the scary Jud Süss! Sleep tight, little Adolf."
4	Okkervil	33 _23rd
When "the Creator's" most unruly cockney wide-boy stops toeing-the-line, he/she/it gets genocidal and calls upon their most reliable vegan to save all the animals and stuff; and from thereon out general nonsense and CGI'ness ensues. An actually solid lead performance from Crowe is lost amongst the mythical theological ramblings, a humdrum support cast and wholly unsatisfying and unsatisfactory last 20 minutes or so. Oh well, Aronofsky had to produce a dud at some point I guess.
4	dunetails	60 _38th
Probably the best you can do with a bible story,inherently flawed and weak plot. Visually interesting at least.
4	NothingsGood	50 _45th
Pacing and poor writing destroy an otherwise marvelous film. Some of the best montages ever captured on film.
4	xacviant	68 _23rd
Darren Aronofsky's take on the Flood is a maddening mixed bag of great audacious moments and the same primitive grittiness that has marked many a pre-modern epic. That a real, enormous Ark was built, yet the animals which fill it are all CGI, somehow encapsulates the film's mix of awe and tedium. The script tries for provocation and complexity, yet never goes quite far enough; the acting is sincere, yet often overwrought. Hard to recommend yet hard to dismiss. Ultimately, use your own judgment.
4	Paxton	45 _14th
No ah thanks
3	Difontaine	65 _42nd
I am Maximus Decimus Noah, commander of the big boat (and rock-angel-people). Father to rightly pissed off sons, husband to an occaisionally over the top wife. Raises so many questions about choice, faith etc etc but would rather have rock monsters. Also, it's an Aronofsky picture, best summed as follows. Mescaline don't make movies, but if they did they'd purple wibble umbrella starship ROCK OF SCREAMING DROWING PEOPLE
3	Anomaly	51 _19th
The imagery is stunning, and I actually liked the idea of the rock-angels. The rest of the film is a complete mess, full of melodrama and distractingly obvious CGI. Hell, even Ray Winstone's face looked like CGI at times. Just go watch the genesis sequence and skip the rest of the misanthropic dribble.
3	KasperL	60 _50th
Very few great directors (if any at all) manage never to fall down from the pedestals upon which we place them. And so now, after five Tier 10 pictures, it's time for Aronofsky to disappoint. His blockbuster (as opposed to An Aronofsky film) has its moments, though. And Anthony Hopkins picking berries. Also known as: 'Noah and the Stone Ents'.
3	moraesfelipe	50 _33rd
Poignant, surprisingly meditative and somber, for sure, but only in its last 40 minutes or so. Too bad it starts like some sort of fantasy flick -- that's the Fountain-esque segment -- and it takes too long to accept its faith-challenging vocation -- that's the solid part, the one that informs Noah with Aronofsky's torments, nightmares and human punishments from his best films, The Wrestler and Black Swan. If you take only the climax, this is as good as these films.
3	GordonBombay	20 _6th
So let me get this straight. The villain was rain and a guy wanting to live? I have no problems with religion, but I draw the line at boredom. I'm not saying it was boring all the way through, but there were times, when I hoped Crowe would start to sing, just so SOMETHING would happen. 2 hours of rain... oh and why the fuck didn't Hermione just say a spell to make it stop raining? I mean what the fuck Hermione?!
3	Wezzo	71 _30th
By blockbuster standards, it's batshit crazy, and that's absolutely a good thing: I do love my Bible stories amped up with monsters, montages, and Russell Crowe screams. Drags on a bit in places, though.
3	Andyviews	48 _35th
While it looked pretty, it was just a bore. I don't think God destroyed the world in the Abrahamic tradition because we cut down trees and shit. And Noah turns into a pretentious teenager who thinks he's hot shit because he thinks "humanity is full of scum man yeah man just let us all wipe out and leave the earth to the animals man humans ain't done nothing to improve the planet" Give me a fucking break you misanthropic cunt
3	DrGoatman	75 _67th
But that's not how it is in the Bible! Really? Clearly you have never read the Bible while high.
3	nilooravaei	74 _26th
so excessive and melodramatic, to the point where it was laughable at times. it took itself way too seriously and ended up disappointing. it was alright to watch, if you took it with a grain of salt, but in no way becoming of a filmmaker of aronofsky's calibre. it beat us over the head with its themes, which weren't that profound to begin with. the actors were all good in their own right, but were left at the mercy of an inferior script.
3	shauny18	44 _23rd
This film is really boring! There are sci fi elements in this film which are totally ridiculous. I think the animation of the rock monster angel things was quite poor and some of the green screen parts looked low budget! None of the co-stars gets time to shine with Russell Crowe dominating for the very long running time. There was also a man asleep in the screen room and snoring so this shows how captivating this film was.
3	Kurochocole	62 _9th
Beautiful scenery in a few shots. CGI definitely has room for improvement. I actually lost count of how many unexplained cliches in the film, mostly covered up as so called the Act of God. David Letterman was right, how are you supposed to turn a one page Bible story into a full length film? Fill it with generic melodrama of course.
2	cagedwisdom	50 _38th
I don't get why Aronofsky made this. Of all the ridiculous OT stories Noah is certainly one of the worst, and this does little with it. Russell Crowe is great but his fanatic character, the only interesting one here, is not explored well enough. It's hard to know who to root for, the "good guys" being steeped in the OT religiosity which is impossible to get on board with. Is that the point? If so, it's not well made. Completely stunning now and then (those montages), and it did keep my interest.
2	Suture Self	7 _67th
While I often find the melodrama in Aronofsky's movies to be excessively inflated and pompous, I think he's finally found material that allows this kind of melodrama to work - all it took was a Biblical apocalypse. The dual "Good vs. Evil" conundrum of man is too simple and unconvincingly explored, but the film somehow manages to work well as an ode to Earth's plants and animals, and the visuals give the impression that this story we're watching is of another world. My favorite Aronofsky???
2	bowfinger	40 _32nd
As an Aronofsky fan (heck, I even loved the Fountain), this was a truly disappointing experience to say the least. I don't want to believe this was Aronofsky's vision when he set off to shoot this. Once the cat is out of the bag (or shall I say, in the ark), it becomes a tedious, boring, predictable, uninspired, off-Broadway type family drama. I've always hated Crowe's acting, but now I can't stand it.
2	frederic_g54	6 _35th
Well, at least they won't run out of food. (awkward silence) What, still too soon ?
2	muutanet	37 _28th
This was a hilarious story. Noah was on Darwin's side (after apes came men), there was a suicidal angel, the father of human kind looked like Conchita Wurst and the entire story ended with a rainbow. Phew!
2	TheRealJ-Ro	70 _42nd
I dunno, man. There's good, great & not-so-good all over this thing. I don't care that it isn't a strict Biblical interpretation (in fact I kinda love that it isn't). There are plenty of those (ie. a 10-part mini-series, now a 3-hour movie). Really beautiful imagery (yes, I liked the rock angels), coupled with wonky animal CGI. Connelly, Watson & the guys gave uneven performances, but Hopkins & Winstone were great. Noah is morally ambiguous, at once a saint and a cockbag. Worth checking out.
2	DougCollins	65 _0th
Way off the book, A couple of scenes I laughed because of how non-biblical this account is. And my son was wondering why there was no mention of bionicles helping Noah build the ark. By far the worse Biblical movie ever.
2	chemical404	34 _16th
Perhaps if I liked Hollywood movies in general I wouldn't had minded Noah this much, but these sappy CGI epics quickly get on my nerves. Too bad Aronofsky went this direction, I would expect Emmerich to direct a movie like this.
2	janus	40 _10th
The narcissism and broad, shallow (heh) misanthropy that drive the ultimate "told you so" fantasy stand out in shocking relief. The Ark becomes a place where it's imperative to quash all dissent by any means necessary. Winstone's villain is beyond a strawman. The film makes basic tenets like God and original sin feel contrived and arbitrary. It made this usually tolerant atheist want to grab the nearest Bible and spike it into a fucking trash can.
2	eric-jan	65 _30th
Nothing special, although I enjoyed Russell Crowe's acting and the interpretation of the bible (with the fallen angels' look and the evil humans worth killing). Noah was quite a bastard on the ship though :P
2	letskillrobots	3 _9th
One of the worst Pokemon sequels
2	omgfridge	1 _8th
Considering I was a fan of "The Fountain' where many weren't I semi expected this to still be good even when the critic reviews aren't. Didn't even bother finishing this mess so I don't really have anything else to add. Yawn.
2	Gideon	2 _59th
What this film misses is a deeper layer and a modern day stance on religion (i.e. religious criticism/scepticism). No rewatch value for me whatsoever. Watson remains an annoying 'actress' to watch. Missed chance, Darren.
2	chemtrails	40 _24th
What the fuck
2	Frosty	60 _41st
A film struggling to decide what to be and ends up being nothing. My sense was it should have gone stranger and slower. By being more accessible the weak narrative really shows through. The alternative was to tighten it up, focus on one part of the story (building the ark or on the ark) and be more character focused. By taking the middle ground the film doesn't work in either sense.
2	jack parsons	9 _77th
Aronofsky, I will never doubt you again. It took me way to long to see this film, I should know by now that you create art that I love, always. The creation sequence was masterful. Shilouettes of every man made violent theme in almost stop motion fashion?! Beautiful. Fallen angel rock giants?! God I loved this film.
2	d_drudges	70 _81st
A modern retelling of the story. Aronofsky simultaneously takes the piss out the Old Testament and its genocidal god, and chastises modern Christians for having gotten married to neoliberalism and its destructive policies. In contrast to the original, the story with all its craziness becomes almost coherent if you squint your eyes. I certainly enjoyed Noah murdering people bearing the mark of Cain like he doesn't give a damn.
2	Cinema_Asia	50 _12th
This is just bad.. hilariously bad and probably worthy of a parody. Was it necessary to have poorly rendered cheesy looking CGI golems? What purpose did these things serve? Russell Crowe's long monologues were rambling and disjointed. It would be more interesting if the film was about Noah the mad man ranting and building a boat. But instead we get some Aronofsky high brow theological musings and contrivances. Aronofsky is usually decent but he sure did drive off the creativity cliff.
2	St. Berna	40 _22nd
zaten önceden bildigimiz böyle zirva bir hikayeye mantik çerçevesinde yaklasmak söz konusu degildi ama Aronofsky'den daha realist bir yorum ve sorgulayan bir tavir beklerdim açikçasi ben. ama yok, adam bayaa ciddi ciddi anlatiyor. salonda sürekli gülen bir bendim yalniz; bu da -biraz abartarak- vahim bir sosyolojik tablodur benim için. kli$e hollywood anlatimi da mide bulandiriyor. özetle film komple "saçmalik".
2	misterlizard	40 _43rd
The latest in Hollywood's newfound obsession for producing gritty retellings of fairy tales and one of the weirdest. Aronofsky is an odd choice for bringing a children's story to screen and this is about as insane as a mainstream blockbuster has ever been. But it's in no way good. It has some nice visual sequences, but the paper-thin plot is relentlessly padded out with filler. If this was an hour shorter it could have been a fun flick, but as is it's Aronofsky's first dud movie.
2	thegreyfox	72 _56th
A sort of religious precursor to "Waterworld" called "How Things Got Wet". The problem Noah faces is whether you consider it a true story, or a complete load of baloney, and if, like me, you fall into the latter camp, you can really enjoy this nonsense for the great cast, acting, sets and battle scenes, and ignore the fact that some people think it wasn't like the book. The younger cast were a little too gorgeous but Crowe was excellent (although leaving that girl behind was a shit thing to do)
2	Superargo	15 _6th
An ordeal. Aronofsky hits this thing in full-on slobbering nutzoid mode, and at times it seems like some sort of dare he's pulling off--"How many bizarre, fanciful non sequiturs can I stuff into this thing before the audience revolts?" "How barren and plodding can I make the narrative until the audience revolts?" "If I suddenly change the main character into a disgusting villain, will the audience revolt?" I revolted. NOAH is revolting.
2	lena_c	2 _17th
Especially Watson added to some of the good acting, but I felt like I was watching something that was created only for the Blockbuster's sake, and not to tell an amazing story that some people actually believe is true.. So many awesome details were left out or not mentioned. I had very low expectations and they were not exceeded. *Okay
2	klea	33 _22nd
Felt like they tried to shove the flood story into a LOTR movie
2	Hofschneider	80 _66th
It works. The ridiculousness a lot of people are criticising here is the bible. Aronofsky is just using it. I don't like a few casting decisions and a bit to much green screen meh, but besides that, it works. As a comment on masculinity, on family values, homosexuality... also, the Right hates it, so it has to be good.
2	guvolefou	40 _9th
Eynesil: Cıvık inanç propagandasını görmezden gelebilirsek kalbur üstü bir blockbuster sayılabilir belki ama asıl can sıkıcı olan Aronofsky'in neden böyle bir film çektiği.
2	Lightning17	71 _29th
Strange, confusing, fantastical, and yet somewhat intriguing, Noah takes the Biblical narrative and twists it into a fairy tale about mercy, judgment, and the nature of man, while helped along by strong performances and some decent visuals.
2	thehynes	37 _7th
rains alot
2	kough33	60 _28th
Sound track and that amazing creation sequence were the only things to remind me that Aronofsky is somewhere around this cast!
2	mrarn	51 _61st
Noah has a bible story at it's core, but it's really a fantasy movie. Enjoyed some parts, but Noah's internal battle is more laughable than gripping.
2	Chronicler	75 _27th
A fascinating take on the Noah story from the bible. Some cool images and creatures(the watchers were pretty cool). The film loses stream near the end but the build up to the flood and the flood itself are done right. Noah sways between saint and asshole and everything in between. Hopkins is great as Methuselah. Worth checking out.
2	Corbad	40 _7th
There are strong visual moments, the performances are not as wooden as I had been led to believe, but the concept itself is just awful, and the execution of the story leaves an enormous amount to be desired, especially considering its ponderous length. (DNF)
2	SpeedMarque	35 _19th
It's not a bad movie per se. It's just incredible boring and very forgettable. When you make biblical movie about redemption and all everyone is talking about are stone ents you've clearly missed the mark.
1	Actionberg	30 _6th
Two absolutely stunning sequences of creation are all that's here. This whole endeavor feels more like PG-13ization (Armies! Factions! Rock monsters!) than an adequate embellishment of themes upon rather limited source material. It's painful to have to witness a talent like Jennifer Connolly pretend like the script she's forced to ham out isn't rife with overly melodramatic stupidity. I don't know if I'd ever been annoyed by costume design before, but it turns out that chic-Bible can pull it off
1	TheDenizen	40 _17th
They take an already ludicrous tale and pump it so full of over the top family melodrama that it bursts at the seams. While there's certainly things to enjoy here (some of the scenes of Biblical carnage are particularly choice), the film chokes to death on its own stuffing...I get that the flood story is only a couple of pages long, but so much of the padding that was shoveled into this script adds absolutely nothing to the finished product except an unnecessarily bloated runtime.
1	Kavu	32 _13th
Darren what did you doooooo?! And why?
1	TheDiceman	40 _19th
Amusing, I liked the rock transformers.
1	cowfrappe	65 _44th
A grand attempt that sometimes falters but always impresses. Watson gives a surprisingly excellent performance.
1	Derekstar	90 _85th
Noah was written by the ghost of Joseph Campbell.
1	PeaceAnarchy	77 _51st
It's no LotR, but still a pretty good quasi-medieval fantasy film. Great cinematography, an interesting quest and while it gets a little preachy I'd blame the source material for that, seeing as it's renowned for being preachy. Some plot holes here and there, but I suppose that's par for the course, the script does its best with them. The implied incest is kind of icky though, surely they could have found a way to avoid that without reworking too much.
1	Bojangles	90 _97th
Thematically dense while staying true to the grim, horrible essence of the Pentateuch. So full of despair and beauty that I couldn't help myself from crying. A near masterpiece in my book.
1	amerigo	70 _26th
Does a Bible story classify as a remake? Because this overcooked epic has all the characteristics of one. There are some intriguing nuances that gesture towards the brilliance of prior Aronofsky films (such as the bizarrely Nietzchean antagonist), but the script is too weighed down by the pretense of Biblical accuracy, as if pandering to "cool" Sunday school teachers
1	td888	40 _29th
What the fuck did I watch. A very odd movie.
1	Koalafish	40 _6th
Ridiculous....and it even looked like crap
1	Icarus	75 _49th
Lots of intriguing stuff here, I take the film as a form of midrash, essentially reading between the lines to try and better understand the story. The more visually- or aurally-oriented bits were best. That said, there were several elements that didn't work for me: An uneven feel from one scene to the next, Connelly's emoting, on-the-nose dialogue, a tedious battle sequence, and at least two striking deviations from Genesis--why call it Noah if you are doing something different?
1	rokkobokko	30 _24th
Dear Darren Aronofsky: Please go back to doing whatever you did when you made The Fountain. I can see the echoes of it in your recent films, but echoes do not a good film make. The fallen angels were pretty neat though.
1	ChrisPalm	77 _62nd
Some fantastic scenography saves the movie.
1	Wiche	57 _31st
This is some American, heroic, blockbuster thing with a slightly interesting story, some very basic characters with absolutely no depth and a weird Hollywood ending. Emma Watson was great, though. Damn you, Aronofsky! You directed Requiem for a dream, the fountain, black swan and the wrestler and then you come up with this?
1	Evolution	55 _24th
What a floating turd.
1	roonay3k	40 _14th
I was so bored while watching this.. If this story is really what was written in the bible then i can't blame the movie for a terrible story but I am certainly gonna blame the movie for bad acting, poor visuals (rock monsters) and an absolute waste of my time!
1	sophie	30 _13th
This was quite stupid. Talking stone people that used to be light. wtf? Had to skip to the end.
1	SandyR	35 _2nd
ROCK PEOPLE??!!!
1	Vandelay1	71 _79th
good movie
1	Ofterdingen	72 _80th
Aranofsky's film will neither satisfy the blockbuster-crowd, the believers or the non-believers. Instead we get a filmmakers vision and it's all the better for it. It's far from perfect but it's still a darkly twisted tale of survival, sin, redemption - and love.
1	TV+Film-Hub	10 _52nd
A blatant attempt to turn the story of Noah into a Lord-of-the-Rings knock-off. Problem is only Christians want to see a Bible story, and no Christian wants to see a Bible story go this far off book. This story really isn't related except for the names.
1	CoinQuatro	65 _64th
All about tone. Gets it right.
1	drawkward86	55 _17th
As with other visionary directors who have made fascinating smaller-budget movies, with a shitload of cash on hand Darren Aronofsky apparently lost everything that makes him who he is while making this film. It's dull, thinly-etched doesn't begin to describe the characters, and Aronofsky misses opportunity after opportunity to make the kind of weird, twisted filmmaking he does best. What a massive disappointment.
1	graveyardtan	45 _14th
That was a chore. Emma Watson is the only person doing anything interesting in this mess of an epic. Aronofsky, what the fuck?
1	jordanlige	100 _51st
really good
1	Stewball	90 _93rd
It was pretty much what I expected, until all of a sudden it wasn't. I think I can safely say that only a mind reader or some one with a prescient dart board could have see the twist coming. Bad news for the action junkies, from that point (2/3rds in) on, it was almost all dramatic dialogue, but very powerful drama it was. I can' see why Crowe would want to take the roll. I won't say much more for now, except to say the "angels"/watchmen were a little, OK a lot, over the top. Emma Watson an [Full Review]
1	walkearth	50 _37th
Plot-wise is terrible - the liberties taken with the original Biblical story do not quite work out, but some of them rather add an unnecessary Hollywood-esque spice to the film. Aronofsky's life and creation sequences are the highlight of the film.
1	nauru	10 _6th
Boring, and with the exception of one cool battle scene, terrible.
1	ABUNCHOFCATS	20 _4th
Rock monsters are cool.
1	JohnSandwich	40 _15th
Wanted to leave like 30 minutes in, might as well have. Dull mess.
1	FunkyAstro	75 _74th
Jee whiz guys it wasn't that bad. If you completely ignore the fact that this is a bible story that people have put their faith in some version of, it plays just like any other watchable comic book / mythological movie I've seen in the last 20 years.
1	fenixdown	60 _17th
An action/CGI extravaganza with some Aronofsky superdrama on the side.
1	SirStuckey	35 _10th
Allow me to be the 3,000,000th person to mention the golems and then be on my way.
1	nevejas	38 _8th
The biggest miracle god ever created was killing Russell Crowe in the first scene and then resurrecting him in his son. To think it could have spent its powers on directing this movie instead, gives me more pain than Noah encountered when everyone outside his ship was drowning. Still if the waters of the flood were as shallow as character involvement and exploration in moral ideas presented, building an ark was an incredulously huge waste of time as well as watching the process.
1	CarsonWid	61 _35th
Why Darren, Why?
1	deaddilly	60 _28th
Not entirely bad. Its completely messy and there was something fascinating about that considering how it was advertised and who directed it. Bizarre.
1	Tavington	1 _11th
NO-ah. Aronofsky, I am disappoint.
1	roofs_runner	82 _65th
To transform a 1 page Bible story into epic experience, Aronofsky had to add extra stuff which is good and bad at the same time. It is surely not made for people who look for precise religious interpretation, but it has lots of vivid visual moments and explicit moral lessons.
1	nechbet	50 _16th
I don't know what I expected from the movie that is based on a biblical story. I laughed. A lot. In places where I shouldn't have.
1	overrated	34 _26th
The rock golems, Ray Winstone's evil and equally out of place twin from Beowulf, Emma Watson's ACTING, and some berries all make this really bad. Didn't even buy Noah coming unhinged in the end. Some great imagery (that shot of the last of the Cainites getting swamped by a wave with the ark in the background was amazing), but it's nowhere near enough.
1	Zio	90 _82nd
Noah is flawed but greater than the sum of its parts. Aronofsky explores the character as not just a man doing The Creator's bidding, but a survivor wracked with guilt and tormented by what his Creator is having him do. Noah is visually stunning: the stylistic CGI, the cinematography, the art direction. Perfect. The dialogue is iffy at points, the pacing is not consistent, but the cast are able to pull it off in the end. Noah manages to entertain throughout while giving new life to an old icon.
1	last request	70 _58th
Ray Winstone steals the show.
1	d_r_e_s_	2 _31st
Thankfully I didn't see this in the movie theaters - I would've been so disappointed. This movie is well made with some good acting in between, but unfortunately, all I am left with, is a long, boring at times, and uneven film. No matter if Aronofsky deviates from the biblical story or not, this was poorly executed, almost as if the director didn't have a heart and passion for it. - Okay
1	Telemecus	56 _66th
Some reinterpretation so made it fresh.
1	Velvet Crowe	35 _31st
Oh look, bible stories! FOR ADULTS!
1	redacted	51 _22nd
Mutes the Christianity down during the retelling of a Bible story. No mention of any divine titles rather a Creator of a universe exists, even an evolution timelapse makes the cut. What we're left with is a human story pulled from the pages of the Bible. Which quite smartly, throws the emphasis back onto us (who in Noah's tale, stray, follow Cain & require complete cleansing). So, against the Creators will we're left to rebuild again, Aronofsky hints to do it with less sodomy this time. Maybe...
1	burkayadalig	64 _25th
a disappointment of epic proportions... I would never expect such an incoherent work from Aronofsky...
1	hellboy76	66 _51st
It's definitely questionable on its interpretation of the bible story, but it still remains a tale of faith and redemption. It is not an amazing work and at times even the effects are a bit sloppy (except for some amazingly artistic montages), still it successfully captures the magnitude of events for the most part. The cast is good as well.
1	maakal	71 _40th
A lot better than I expected
1	hajikarimi	86 _24th
1266: long distance to a good plot!
1	damil	85 _95th
I kinda loved it. Crowe's good and so is Connelly, as well as veterans like Hopkins and Winstone. However, I felt the younger actors let the film down a little. It's pretty impressive on a technical level, too. The cinematography is gorgeous and the direction is impeccable. Not all of the CGI is good, but there are some absolutely awesome action sequences. It's a very brave and ambitious film from Aronofsky that has, and will continue to, divide people and I truly praise him for it.
1	Bagger	71 _54th
I guess I was the most surprised by how un-batshit-crazy I found this to be, compared to what I was expecting.
1	SheWas	51 _46th
Fantasy and action, sort of fun but way too long.
1	Daph_NL	49 _36th
Hmm, I expected a great Hollywood-produced spectacle with Noah... I didn't get that. I believe it does average all across the line, but it never does good. The acting of Crowe, but more so of Watson, was below the line. Overacting seems to be the word here. The imagery does really well in some scenes (the timelapse scenes I love), but the rest aren't that good. And so we have average again. 49/100.
1	kelvin1234	69 _23rd
I think the story is abit missleading if it tries to follow the story from the bible. The film is animated very good and the acting is good.
1	leeloo	68 _46th
If they would not have associated it to the Biblical story it would have been a better movie.
1	obtiosov	41 _7th
Am I the only one who thought that Aronofsky played "A Beautiful Mind" card there AND enjoyed it? Russell Crowe going batshit crazy (if you want to think that way), while Jennifer Connelly trying unsuccessfully to contain him, only to go along with him. I feel so sorry when good chemistry such as the one between Crowe and Connolly is not put to no good use like in this movie. Disappointed.
1	ratedargh	65 _36th
Decent look at the weaknesses of humankind and the dependence on being heard and feeling valued. It may be a tad preachy...but not in the way the biggest religious critics want it to be! It's more about understanding the ills of power and the vague notions of control swirling around in our heads. The score is both horrendous and intricately original depending on the moments. It needed a more definitive focus, though. Oh, and rock monsters, there were definitely rock monsters.
1	chmul_cr0n	85 _96th
man's incestuous history
1	Läuft.	68 _35th
Weirdly fascinating. The first 30 minutes are crap, but after that it is really thrilling although it still felt weird at times. What a weirdly great experience.
1	mkellins	55 _44th
As much as I love Aronofsky's work, this one failed to impress me. There are many beautiful scenes, especially the story of creation. Also the rock-angels were a fun touch. However, the rest of the film is very uneven. The big budget seems to have dimmed the creative spark that was present in, for example, The Fountain.There's clearly plenty of thought and intelligent desing behind the film, but the result still feels a tad impersonal.
1	DougieD	80 _54th
A thought-provoking and challenging take on the Bible story. Manages to surprise and invoke wonder at every turn. Darren Aronofsky puts his own creative spin on the story while retaining the overall themes that religious audiences will expect, making for a Hollywood epic like none I've seen before. The third act suffers a bit when it turns into a psychodrama examining Noah's internal struggle, but it's still a riveting film all the way through.
1	eCitizen	40 _32nd
Large cast of excellent actors and good performances, but the movie is impossible to enjoy. The special effects are terrible and sometimes pathetic. Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly were great, as was the rest of the cast. Music and montages were awesome. The movie is repeatedly undermined by ridiculousness. The acting is good, but the story is more ludicrous than the biblical story it was inspired by. For this, Darren Aronofsky was a horrible, lousy, rotten writer/director/producer.
1	Ryan Lueders (ReelRyan)	65 _22nd
Uh... No. Sorry Aronofsky. You had me swept away in a deluge of wonder with Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream. This film, was a light drizzle of inspiration. I'm not going to go into a Biblical tirade, but I'll just say this: if you are making a film based off of a written account (The Bible), at least attempt to make it follow the actual story... [Full Review]
1	mattorama12	52 _19th
It actually has an interesting ending, but those 30 minutes can't save a 195 minute film. When I first heard about this movie, I tried to imagine an interesting way to tell this story and couldn't come up with anything. Apparently, Aronofsky couldn't either. The sequence with Noah explaining the creation story was very well executed and the highlight though.
1	antidood1	75 _71st
I'm not sure why or how, but this movie worked for me. I think the power of this movie isn't its story, but the way it's told. Visually, this movie is mind-blowing. It's hard for me to say much useful about this movie, because like many people already said, it really is all over the place, but somehow I feel like that's exactly what made this movie great. There's a hammy villain, Russel Crowe imitating Christian Bale's Batman, and lots of visual spectacle. And it works!
1	HeyDingo	32 _57th
The story is gonna throw you off at first, but keep in mind how ridiculous the story is to begin with. Some of the dialogue is very fair and the pacing is a little insane at times. With that said, this movie was quite fantastic. Some incredible performances, and visuals that will blow you away. Not to mention the astonishing montages that pop up here and there which are probably my favorite part of the movie.
1	Barraoc	50 _19th
Rock trolls (that had angels trapped inside?), fire stones, magic beans, epic battles, firearms, swords, armour, a really big boat, oh, and lots of water. Seriously, who came up with this? Is it based on a book or something? Aronoffizedsky more like.
1	Pumpernikiel	52 _16th
Aronofsky coloured christian mythology, thanks to this it wasn't completely dull.
1	gkfilm	75 _89th
Entertainment: 3.5/4. Spirituality: 2/3. Sustainability: 2/3. This movie will offend the religious unless they also have deep love for the environment and animals.
1	hsncrspywl	80 _65th
So fucking silly I think Russel Crowe believed he actually WAS Noah. Fantastic. Epic, hammy, scenery-chewing Biblical epic, with some super intense moments, pretty much an Aronofsky film - hyper-dramatic, super harrowing at points, crazy imagery. About as much fun as you can have with the story of a divine genocidal global drowning really.
1	DesertPunk	72 _51st
The Old Testament is fucking terrifying, and I think Noah captures that in spite of terrible pacing issues and some uncertain direction. I had doubts about Aronofsky, but doing the story this way and not caring takes balls.
1	Ag0stoMesmer	1 _20th
Dodgy casting and some of them trying to play it straight made this a jarring mess. [df]
1	fra paolo	32 _25th
Comic-book movie based on The Bible. It had some nice touches, but loses focus as the Flood recedes.
1	sopachuco13	70 _35th
Aronofsky's Noah was very much done in the vein of The Ten Commandments and The Passion of Christ. The production put into this movie definitely make it a movie that the studio wanted people to go out and see. I am sure that there are many people out there that bemoan the liberties taken in this movie but I thought that everything was done in the name of Hollywood box office pleasure. The story told in Noah was a very good story but there are some parts that left me questioning.
1	Liv	32 _4th
I will give some points because I like Russel Crowe but even so his acting couldn`t be worst, I guess.
1	dylanwilson6	70 _51st
Once you get past all the bible stuff the film isn't that bad. It may be a little long and a bit boring and stupid at times, but it's enjoyable enough. Where this thing shines is it's visuals. There is a sequence about two thirds of the way in that is truly amazing and a spectacle all in itself. I'm a little disappointed in the overall feel of this movie though and that's just because I've created high expectations for Aronofsky, and this falls below any of that (while not being terrible)
1	TheEscapist	71 _52nd
There's a lot of good in this film, but I was expecting more, after all this is an Aronofsky film. The visuals are good, there are some great montages and artistic shots, cool ideas, the acting is decent given the material, the setting is interesting, the soundtrack pretty nice, the story had potential. But somehow it simply wasn't that interesting. There's an environmentalist message in there, but it didn't really make me think. A Hollywood blockbuster rather than an artistic Aronofsky film.
1	jspidah	78 _80th
I'm not completely sure what to say about this movie. It's an epic fantasy movie that utilizes Old Testament mythology rather than LoTR or D&D. It's really, really weird, and Aronofsky is unafraid of keeping watchers unsettled. With that being said, it's a conventional story with nontraditional visuals, and it's pretty good.
1	VengefulKBM	70 _51st
Aronofsky's weakest film to date is still pretty good, but a little too self-conscious in its weirdness to be as good as the rest of his work. It is CERTAINLY worth seeing, simply for how odd/unique it is.
1	P u l p	40 _27th
Black Swan, and then Noah! Hmmm...
1	LookJabba...	5 _30th
Noah is my least favorite Darren Aronofsky film to date but I don't believe for one moment that he had full creative control. Sadly one too many ridiculous Hollywood moments scream heavy studio influence. Russell Crowe carries the film well and the supporting cast is more tolerable than I expected. Surprisingly Noah is much darker than the promotional material suggests. There are no doubt glimmers of cinematic brilliance but overall this biblical adaption is drawn out and tonally uneven.
1	PluggedIN	50 _50th
It's poignant that Noah, the last righteous man, felt such love in that moment. Because that's what God feels when He looks down on us. We are sinners. We constantly fail Him. We deserve death, He tells us. But in His eyes, we're also beautiful. And God's love for us--His mercy and grace--ends up saving us (pluggedin.com)
1	donquixotic	40 _23rd
I gave up half way through bored to tears
1	patman	65 _56th
Aronofsky returns to our original superheroes in a biblical epic. It's an entertaining blockbuster with impressive visuals. But somewhere in the mix between the patriarch Noah and Aronofsky you feel that it could have been more than just an average drama.
1	Catnip	40 _23rd
Surprised me lots of times, but didn't really convince me in the end. There was beautiful imagery only to be ruined by bad CGI (mostly super weird animals), actors were mostly disappointing, especially Emma Watson... I liked how they made the story work tho, you never knew if it was actually post-apocalyptic or during biblical times, also you never once heard the word "god", always "the creator" which was a clever solution I guess.
1	Almanstar	80 _78th
I liked this movie much more (and it made a whole lot more sense) after I read about the Gnostic undertones running through the whole thing: http://www.aleteia.org/en/arts-entertainment/aggregated-content/the-secret-gnostic-key-to-aronofskys-noah-that-everyone-missed-5237320601042944
1	gulenayturan	65 _9th
Russell Crowe hayranlığıma gölge düşürebilecek bir filmdi. cast iyiydi allahtan da fazla batmadı.
1	koiras	40 _38th
good points, good making, with a weak scenario.
1	andreaslutro	60 _24th
Begins as a very interesting premise for a biblical story told in movie form, but the second half doesn't keep up. The characters aren't engaging or deep enough, and their moral choices are extremely predictable and shallow.
1	Kutz	50 _14th
Entertaining. Nothing more.
1	SDGuitar	57 _42nd
By far the worst Aronofsky/Mansell Collaboration. Plot was not great but it was partially redeemed by some scenes with gorgeous visuals (The creation story comes to mind.
1	dardan	45 _38th
Despite the story not really flowing, most likely due it having to tell a lot without being able to divert much from it, it does not get a terrible ranking on the merit of its environmentalist message - especially considering the target audience for this movie. On top of that, I roughly learned the story of Noah.
1	Boxcars	4 _12th
Aronofsky utterly disappoints in this erroneous adaptation of the Genesis story. Crowe's performance as the eponymous prophet can't save "Noah" from the awful script and lackluster visuals.
1	hakkanarejo	94 _53rd
Noah and his family still try to live as cleanly as possible--to live as the Creator meant them to live. And they're doing it in a very dirty age long before Babylon held the fertile crescent, before Egypt's pyramids sprouted next to the Nile. They work in harmony with nature. They don't wantonly kill either man or beast.
1	Fenius	80 _29th
Disappointing, considering the director.
1	luord	66 _59th
It reimagines enough things with a surreal enough atmosphere to set it apart from other biblical epics, making this one a claustrophobic tale of madness.
1	mwestcott	25 _6th
Noah is a terribly depressing movie. Russel Crowe is a terribly dull actor. Darren Aronofsky is capable of so much better. It gains points merely for the visual design and some of the special effects. Beyond that there is nothing to be found here. No inspiration or faith. Just depression.
1	hssnozdagg	25 _9th
Aronofsky... blink your eye if you are in trouble. Who made you film this?

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