Robert Barron and Missing the Point of the Book of Exodus

At Real Clear Religion, Fr. Robert Barron writes a post concerning the recent movie Exodus: Gods and Kings.

He takes the movie to task for missing the point of the Book of Exodus, saying:

the movie is spiritually flat

He elaborates by saying:

The problem is the way the relationship between Moses and the God of Israel is presented. In the Biblical telling, Moses, like many of the other heroes of Israel, was compelled to pass through a long period of testing and purification in order to prepare himself to receive the divine word. Only when he had been sufficiently humbled and purified was he able to take in the presence of God and to accept the dangerous mission of liberation that God gave him. Ridley Scott's Moses did indeed spend years in the desert to the east of Egypt, but he seems little changed from the self-absorbed, violent, and worldly prince of Egypt that he had been.

This article is well worth reading, without regard to your inclination to see the movie.