This IMO was created as a comedy showing how life plays us all as pawns and there is always at least two side of a story and so on. Or may be the intention was just a politically incorrect funny movie. Well what they did was something dim and unfunny. Waste of film if it was shot on celluloid which I doubt. Waste of good acting talent: there were a few good actors in it, hopefully they've got paid. I think the writers and the director had no idea how to make a movie and thought that may be a comedy is a bit easier to do then anything else. They failed and the '10 commandments' are miserable sketches having nothing to do with humour or any food for thought. I don't know what is worse, that or ceaseless flow of CGI-effects instead of content we see in 2010-s. Probably 'The ten' is worse because it pretends to be a comedy and deceives the viewer. Do not watch this movie. No entertainment value, no any other value at all in it.

The Ten is supposed to be a series of comedy sketches based on the Ten Commandments. I use "supposed to be" because it has two sketches on "Thou Shalt Not Covet" but none on "Thou Shalt Make No Graven Images", and the two sketches on "Thou Shalt Not Covet" really aren't about coveting. That kind of lackadaisical approach defines this movie. It's occasionally funny, but most of the humor falls flat and a good bit of the rest is inside jokes that may have amused the cast and crew but leave the audience out of the loop.Paul Rudd plays the character who introduces each of the sketches while we see little snippets of his unhappy personal life acted out like some sort of abstract off-Broadway play. This is another example of how the purpose and intent of The Ten's comedy is hard to fathom. Why is this character introducing these stories? No explanation. Why are we seeing parts of his life in between the sketches? No reason. Clearly, somebody involved in making The Ten laughed at this stuff. I have no idea why. Having Hollywood Megastar Paul Rudd introduce these stories as court-ordered community service would seem to have been much more fertile ground for amusement.There's another sketch all about prison rape, which is theoretically about "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Wife", where they just talk about prison rape and the punch line is a guy getting raped. It's the sort of thing enjoyed by jaded stand up comics who are bitter about the mainstream success of others, so they revel in material that doesn't connect with the general audience, specifically because most people don't laugh at it.Now, The Ten isn't totally without a chuckle or two. Watching the lovely Winona Ryder play tonsil hockey with a ventriloquist dummy is something to see. Jesus Christ returning to Earth to whittle wooden legs for Mexican rickshaw drivers is fairly clever. The opening sketch about a skydiver with no parachute embedding himself in the ground is hilarious if you've ever seen that episode of Homicide: Life on the Street where Vincent D'Onofrio gets trapped under a subway car. And the musical number at the end is pretty good.For the most part, though, you're left looking at the screen and wondering why something was supposed to be funny. There just aren't enough legitimate laughs in The Ten to bother with it.

I really really wish IMDb would allow negative *stars*, maybe 'Bombs' to be awarded as well. Then this movie would get a -10! I checked the ratings here to see if it was worth-while to watch the rest of 'The Ten', and I'd like to say thank you to all the comment authors here, who have certainly helped me make up my mind.If I never see the rest of 'The Ten', it will be 21 minutes too soon! I think the 1 star I awarded is way too high!Lastly, how is a show that is a Comedy have spoilers, unless it is in the revealing of the punchline(s)? If that is the case, no one could for this stupid movie! Hmmmm..... is that a spoiler?

i started watching this movie not knowing what to expect and not knowing who starred in it. i started seeing a few actors i knew and said, hmm this movie is prob gonna be pretty good. halfway through i was thinking...wow, they sure found good look-alikes because the real actors woulda never done this movie. finally it ended and my 1st reaction was "i don't get it". the credits rolled and to my surprise, yes the real actors were the ones i saw, not look-alikes.my god this movie is the worst movie I've seen in at least 10 years, 20 possibly, and could be the worst I've ever seen in my life. i just kept waiting for it to "get good" and it never did. i thought maybe it would be like some movies that seem bad till the last 5 min and then you say "oh i get it, yea that was pretty good". nope, sorry to say it just reeks from start to finish. do yourself a favor and don't waste 2 hrs of your life on this. you may never view some of the stars in the same way again...what were they and their agents thinking? i wonder if they tried to answer the question "what is the maximum number of stars you can put into a movie that still sucks?" just pitiful.i went through some of the comments that raved for this movie just to see why they liked it. i read phrases like "i couldn't stop laughing" or "funniest movie ever" and "only intelligent people will like this". well i decided to edit the last part of my review with some spoiler to see if you'd think it was so great.spoiler starts here:in 1 scene, winona ryder becomes so "in love" with a ventriloquist doll that she steals it...has a torrid love affair and has several sexual encounters with it....A VENTRILOQUIST DOLL! funny? you decide.in another 2 neighbors covet each others things so much that when 1 guy buys a medical ct scanner, the other does too. they 1 up each other till they finally own like 30 of them each, their families move out because of this. finally a group of kids get radiation poisoning from a power plant and the only way to save them is by getting all 75 of them into ct scanners in the next 30 min(supposedly a miracle cure is a scan). anyway, this happens at the 1 moment when the 2 neighbors decide to go out for a beer together to make up and aren't home. they watch on the news as they see 75 kids die on their front lawn because they cant get inside to get scanned...end of clip. wow, thats pretty hilarious right? you decide.those are just 2 of the many wonderful skits in this movie. if you thought those 2 were good, you'll love the rest. if you however are like me in thinking "why on earth would that be funny" then please stay away from this movie for your own good.