Great Film overall

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I'm so tired of people who say it about scientists that hold currently unconventional point of view. Don't forget that you can be biased in many different ways. You can be biased because of your religious beliefs as likely as you can be biased by mainstream point of view or other ideas. In fact, it's easier to become biased by statements the majority of people around you believe in. There are many ideologies and systems of beliefs that are not religious. Atheist can have a system of beliefs or presumtions. All of us do because it's a part of being a human and being raised and socialized in society that is already influenced by different ideas. Someone truly unbiased and open minded is open to any evidence and point of view. It's really annoying to witness that as soon as people hear something that goes against current conventional beliefs they say it's ''biased'' and how ''logical'' and ''unbiased'' they and people who have the same point of view as they do are. It's so ironic because at least 90% of these self-proclaimed logical and reasonable couch ''scientists'' didn't do a real scientific research of their own. They just watched the documentary and maybe googled some papers that support conventional point of view for their convirmation bias at best. Ideal scientists are supposed to be humble and only observe the evidences. They don't state anything with 100% guarantee. They shouldn't rely too much and be so influenced by current conventional beliefs even in scientific world to be considered more credible. This is more of a human psychology thing and it's about biases too.

This is either religious propaganda disguised as a scientific documentary or moneymaking by the use of spectacular titles and themes. Don't get me wrong, technically, this film is pretty well made and you will probably only see the big problems with the theories shown in this film, if you have some experience in science and/or archaeology.If you have, you will have a hard time sitting through this. To not make this review too long, I'll concentrate on the problems I was offended by the most.First off, the filmmaker and the scientists he interviews and bases his views on are highly biased. They want to find evidence of the exodus in the first place and then find it by ignoring context. This is not only openly admitted by the filmmaker speaking off screen, it is also very sloppy scientific work - if you can call it scientific at all.An example: They find Semitic ruins in Egypt and say it cannot be proved that these were inhabited by Hebrews, only that these people seem to come from Syria and Canaan. But this was irrelevant, because we couldn't distinguish them from the Egyptians culturally anyway. So, by ignoring the fact you can't say they were Hebrews they spin it to "it might be Hebrews", which is scientifically very sloppy.I also literally face-palmed when David Rohl explains why there was no corpse in the supposed tomb of Joseph. The biblical answer would be that the Jews took the mummy/corpse and brought it to the "Holy Land" - as it was written in the bible. So, this must be it, Rohl says. When the filmmaker asks what about grave robbers, Rohl answers no grave robber would be interested in mummies at all. They would take the jewelry, but not the bones as those would be worth nothing. This is just wrong. Mummies and their bones were used as medicine during European medieval times, f.e. which is part of why we don't have the mummies of many famous Pharaoes despite having found their tombs. Grave robbers could have made good money with the corpse and this might be the reason it is not there. Sadly, nothing else is said about this in the documentary: Were there signs of grave robbers at all? If so, do we know when they broke into the tomb? This would be interesting.But sadly, no real other views than those of the defenders of this "theory" are given much room in this film... And why should the? To falsify the weak statements made in this film?My opinion on this film is: Just watch the beginning, when Manfred Beitak says: "It's a very weak affair." Because that basically sums up this film.4 stars for good editing and the overall interesting topic. Only watch it if you've made up your mind about it anyway and believe in this. Or watch it while being highly critical and do some additional research as hobby detective work to debunk it. Everything else is a waste of time.My advice for the filmmakers: read the bible as what it was supposed to be: a religious text. Not a historical one. (And no, Moses was not the first historian as proposed in this film.)

While the director does not conceal His own assumptions, He does present enough solid archaeological evidence to challenge existing chronology and interpretation. Archaeology is an indefinate science in that it requires human interpretation. All interpretation is flawed. As someone who has conducted in-depth research into the existing chronology, which is based predominantly on the second-hand writings of the Egyptian priest Manetho, I was re-assured to see the film take a fresh approach in considering alternative lines of evidence which are difficult to dispute. The film presents the timeline of Egypt in a new pallitable format so as to enable the layman an insight into the real controversy going on in archaeology. Some critics have accused the director of seeking out experts who agree with His ideas but, that is insulting to the genuine experts in the film, and is not true in all fields. No-one could find a scientist who claims that the sun orbits the earth or that the earth is flat, because science has provem indisputably otherwise. Yet, there are numerous qualified experts, in many fields, who rally to verify the evidence presented in this film. There are times in this film that the mainstream experts actually appear ignorant, and this is not the intention of the director. There is bias in science, on all sides, yet logic and evidence will eventually erode this. What this film does is courageously demand a review of real, overwhelming evidence which appears to validate the Biblical narratives as actual history, painful though that is for some. I recommend this film to all thinking people, religious or not.

First off, I am not a big fan of documentaries. I have never been. This is the first one I have seen that gave some really convincing evidence and it was well researched. The guy who did the documentary was non-biased while doing this research. It took him 12 years! What was amazing, he researched the patterns between between the events that happened in the bible and Egypt's history. The things he found was really intriguing.Don't listen to the other people here that are giving bad reviews, they say that there is no evidence when in reality, there is plenty of evidence that is in the video. It's almost as if they watched the video and picked out bits and pieces without listening to the whole movie which would have answered the questions they had. One person complained that *spoiler alert* the statue of Joseph was just a 3d version made on the computer. However, they showed the 3d version of what it would have looked like back when it was made and then they showed the actual statue.My advice is to go into it with an open mind and let the evidence speak for itself. Then go out and research yourself if you want.I really enjoyed this movie and would watch it again.