Despite all the bad comments on this film, I think it was excellent. I haven't read the book and it inspired me to order the book. Many complaints about the Masada but nobody actually knew how it look liked 2000 thousand years ago. I think this leaves you with a beautiful imagination to how it really was, and you can think of this film after-wards with more violence and more brutal suffering and more sex and more drama. Today all over the world we are still struggling with immigrants, Xenophobia, and Isis. The craving for power never stopped. This was a good summary of a bad tragedy that we are seeing on the news today. Very well played in a mannered way. Vibrant colors and scenery throughout the film. Good Story in general. And most certainly a DVD that I would own and watch again when I need to be inspired.

Really the only good thing about this film was the visuals. Everything else about it was just terrible. This movie was in essence a women's romance novel set during biblical times. The film hardly hold up to Judea/Christian values though. The two main women in the movie sleep with every man they meet. This is unacceptable in our time, but in this time in history they would have been killed for it. To add insult to injury they also practice witchcraft. No one ever seems to question any of this behavior though, and everyone acts like this is perfectly normal. I never did watch the second night. It was so terrible I could not bear another night of this trash. The characters are empty, and wooden. The men are all hunky (right off the cover of a romance novel). Do yourself a favor and skip this. Your brain will thank you for it.

This was trash. I only watched the first night. I kept thinking this must get better. Nope. I should have given up on it improving. The message night one sends was that it is okay to have sex with married men. I couldn't even figure out what the main plot of the movie was supposed to be about.I also didn't understand the supernatural aspect. Where these just dreams or a guilty conscious.I have not read the book. One review said the movie does not reflect the book. I would like to hear from others that have read the book. I would be tempted to give the book a try.

The information I had before trying to watch this sounded good, sounded like it would be quite interesting. Unfortunately the program itself was amazingly boring. I admit, I did not watch the entire show, I gave up watching after 25 minutes. I would have quit sooner but I was hoping it would find some energy and take off.Every scene just plodded along, the times when there should have been the strongest of emotions, there were just frozen masks of indifference. As most, at times, a slight knowing smile, or a little frown of anger (I think that is what it was).Maybe it got better later on in the show, I just could not hang on anymore. It should have been a great story, I think, but not told and represented this way.I doubt too many people will find this interesting enough to watch all the way through.