One of my all time favorites.

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

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.

While in Israel I met some Russian Jewish teen's refuges at a youth village that did not understand where or why they were in Israel. The best way to help them was to get them to read the book Exodus. I went Into town and bought the book Exodus in Russian. It came in two Volumes. I gave it to one of the Russian teens. The next day she with a few others came to me and asked if the story about the hero's girl friend was true. She had been raped, cut up in small pieces and put in a sack on a mule's back and sent home. I told yes it was, as a few weeks before I stumble on to the monument for the young women.Today, I help Israel with the Israel Longhorn Project but I need your help to do it. Please go to http://longhornproject.org and help.I corrected as best as I can. I am dyslexic. Making it hard to write.

I had just read the book and did not remember the movie, so I watched it. Paul Newman was not very believable until very near the end. His portrayal of Ari Ben Canaan was not convincing. One of the characters who is important to the plot to embarrass the English into releasing the Exodus in the book, does not appear in the movie. Ari's sister, Jordana, has a adversarial relationship with Kitty that only comes out in an off-hand statement from Kitty about how Ari's sister talks to her. In addition to missing relationships and characters, the character development did not match the book and it seemed that movement from scene to scene was not smooth. A rating of 3 might be generous.

Someone above wrote "That, and the events that the Six-Day War led to, have eroded the moral assurance that many of the main characters of "Exodus" espouse about Israel and its founding, and would eventually lead to the moral quagmire found 45 years later in Steven Spielberg's "Munich." Today, "Munich" is much closer to the grayness of who is right or wrong in the modern-day Middle East than the black-and-white assumptions that drive the characters of "Exodus" in 1947 -- or its creators in 1960."What a pile of duki.The only "moral quagmire" is the one espoused by moral -equivocating enablers of jihad who see Israel as part of their stumbling block in "deconstructing" the Judeo-Christian West.It's very simple. The Jews were there before the Arabs, BEFORE Islam, the Jews were dispersed, they ALWAYS looked to return, they returned, they offered to share, the UN offered to share, the Arabs were not interested in sharing, only in exterminating the Jews, as most of them are even today.Spielberg's Munich is a perfect example of a guilt-ridden, successful JINO film-maker operating under the Stockholm syndrome, making the the Mossad agents who take out the assassins from the Olympics appear as evil as the PLO killers.Here's a hot tip - there IS good and evil in this world, and if you can't see it, then pluck out your eyes and don't bore the rest of us with your insipid, Howard Zinn-inspired, Marxist film critiques.We need MORE movies like Exodus, not like Munich.