It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

I love the theme music for this film and, with such powerful subject material, I expected an epic. I was sorely disappointed. Opinions of the film often seem to depend on the extent to which the reviewer sympathises with the politics as portrayed. However, setting politics aside, this is a really bad film, condemned to death by wooden acting, stilted dialog and poor direction. When 'Karen' unexpectedly dies near the end, I was convinced it was because someone couldn't stand any more of her terrible acting! Even worthies such as Newman and Richardson seem to struggle with the lines they've been given. Newman's speech at Karen's burial is cringe-worthy, and he looks embarrassed to be making it. Even the magnificent theme music is largely wasted, played at apparently arbitrary points during the film including, for example, Newman catching a bus. This film is not the epic it could have been, it's not even average.

An excellent film, well acted, and trying largely successfully to explain the mess Britain found itself in after Word War 2 having made conflicting promises to the Jewish leaders and Arab leaders, to basically survive two world wars, and then the mandate that left UK stuck with trying to solve the problem. Of course, nowadays the Left with its revisionist view of the past hates this film and would hate it no matter how good it was on every level so there is no need to review certain reviews on here or elsewhere.

The time perspective is interesting here. The film was made only 12 years after the independence in 1948, but although the film is 56 years old it's still both very modern and relevant - the situation hasn't changed much, rather has it worsened and intensified during all these years. All the actors perform excellently well like in all Otto Preminger's films, and this was his last great push, specially engaging Dalton Trumbo for the script, who had just triumphed with "Spartacus". For all its spectacular grandness, high ambitions and pretensions, it got only one Oscar, which was the more well deserved: the music for "Exodus" is unique and among the best film music ever written. Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, John Derek, Sal Mineo, Ralph Richardson, Lee J. Cobb, the special performance by David Opatoshu, and even Marius Goring - they are all perfectly outstanding. The one flaw of this great and historically extremely interesting film is the hand of Leon Uris in the book on which the film is based.Leon Uris wrote a considerable number of novels on Jewish themes, "Mila !8" about the freedom fighters of the Warsaw ghetto being the best of them, in that book it was perfectly justified to be one-sidedly in favor of the fighters, but in the case of Israeli independence the scenario was more complicated implicating at least three sides of the conflict - Israel, Britain and the Arabs, while Leon Uris stuck to one-sided partiality to Israel in all his books on the issue more or less ignoring more complicated aspects, which remains the disturbing want of Leon Uris and leaves him with a stamp of shallowness. He wrote other novels as well, especially a series of Irish novels which many deem his best, while a few years before "Exodus" he also produced the outstanding film script for "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in the Tombstone incident.Well, well, the best and most interesting part of the film remains the beginning, which is all set in Cyprus with the S/S Exodus drama. Also Paul Newman is at his best here, and the scenes on board with the imminent chaos is worth studying again and again. Incidents like this have since occurred many times again and again in different circumstances, and it's well worth studying in detail, to learn the risks, carefully analyze the problems and ride out the crisis. In this case Paul Newman and Ralph Richardson solved the problem together, but then there were worse problems to come that aren't even solved today.

Exodus... or how Zionism was romanticized for an American audience to get a broader acceptance in times when good and reliable information was scarce and people still trusted cinema as their source of news as in the times of news reels.This film is pure Zionist propaganda, with terrible stilted acting, triumphalist unreal dialogue and an inane fictional scenario, like all propaganda films tend to be.In short: it's chuck full of romantic bullshit, ergo gratia, a group of Jewish immigrants pull a Masada on a ship off the coast of Cyprus and so on and so forth with an ending that will make any self-respecting viewer's stomach turn or even vomit.How unfortunate that many, if not most, of the places here depicted have been destroyed by the very same people this film tries to sanitize and exult.This film could easily be placed up there (or more appropriately "down there") with the Nazi film Jud Süß ("Süss the Jew")3:30 hours LOOOONG... no wonder comedian Mort Sahl, so they say, when attending the premiere, apparently bored by the lengthy film, stood up after three hours and exclaimed, "Otto, let my people go!" Can't deny that both cinematography and locations were amazing, therefore I'm giving it a generous high mark of 4 stars out of 10.