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"[picks up the phone in the study] Detective Gold. Tim! She- the old lady. She gonna give him up? She gonna give him up? You got her? You worked her around. Fantastic! Oh, fuck me! Why do I always miss it? She said what? Oh, yeah, I'm the linchpin. Big deal. Oh, man. Was it sweet? I would have been there. I'm stuck here with my- my Jews. You should see this fuckin' room. No, fuckin' bullshit. Bunch of high-strung fuckin' bullshit. They pay so much taxes- Fuck 'em. Yo! She did? Fan-fuckin'-tastic! What? Oh, some bullshit. Somebody's taking shots at 'em- hey, fuck 'em. Don't tell me. Don't send the old lady work down there and tell me how you're so surprised. Fuck 'em and the taxes they pay. You tell me. Ten more bucks a week they're makin', lettin' her work down there? [laughs] Hey, not my people, baby. Fuck 'em. There's so much anti-Semitism the last 4,000 years we must be doin' somethin' to bring it about. I'll see you at the house half an hour. Yo, Tim. See you then. [Hangs up and notices that the dead woman's granddaughter is in the room - and has heard everything]"

"Bob Gold is a cop. A good cop. But tonight, he will betray his friends, disgrace the force, and commit an act of violence because he believes it is the only right thing to do."

"Don't die with a lie on your lips, man."

"Bob, I'm gonna tell you what the old whore said, and this is the truest thing I know: "When you start cumming with the customers, it's time to quit.""

"Joe Mantegna - Bobby Gold"

"A good cop caught between loyalty and betrayal."

"Oh, you know, huh? You're one smart kike, ain't you, Mr. Gold? All you forgot is that if you want to kill me, you best come armed."

"Detective Robert Gold. Whatever he chooses to do is going to be wrong. He still has to make a choice."

"J. J. Johnston - Jilly Curran"

"Paul Butler - Commissioner Walker"

"Rebecca Pidgeon - Miss Klein"

"Ving Rhames - Robert Randolph"

"Bob Gold is a cop. A good cop. But tonight, he will betray his friends."

"[dying] Hey Bobby? Remember that girl?"

"Jilly Curran: Hey, FBI don't put you on their Ten-Most-Wanted list till they know where you are and how long you're gonna be there."

"Hey, you got some... you got some heavy troubles on your mind? Huh, babe? We'll work it out. We'll play some cops and robbers. We'll bust this big criminal. We'll swagger around."

"[after being shot] Oh, God... God help me... what did you do to me?"

"Powerful. Provacative. Controversial."

"William H. Macy - Tim Sullivan"

"Vincent Guastaferro - Lt. Senna"

"Ricky Jay - Aaron"

"Bernard Gray - James"

"Charles Stransky - Doug Brown"

"Roberta Custer - Cathy Bates"

"Lionel Mark Smith - Charlie Olcott"

"Natalia Nogulich - Chava"

"Indira Varma as High Priestess"

"Golshifteh Farahani as Nefertari – The wife of Ramesses II"

"Isaac Andrews as Malak – The mysterious little boy who serves as a manifestation of the God of Abraham."

"Ewen Bremner as Expert"

"Hiam Abbass as Bithiah – The adoptive mother of Moses, Seti I's sister, Ramesses II's aunt, daughter of Ramesses I (Paramessu)"

"Ghassan Massoud as Paser, Ramesses II's Grand Vizier"

"Tara Fitzgerald as Miriam – The sister of Moses and Aaron, only daughter of Amram and Jochebed, and a descendant of Levi"

"Anton Alexander as Dathan – The son of Eliab, and a descendant of Reuben (a son of Jacob and Leah)"

"Kevork Malikyan as Jethro – Zipporah's father, and Moses' father-in-law and Gershom's grandfather"

"Dar Salim as Khyan"

"Maria Valderde as Zipporah – The wife of Moses and the mother of Gershom, and a daughter of Jethro"

"Moses: I love everything that I know about you. And I trust in what I don't."

"Aaron Paul as Joshua – The son of Nun, and a descendant of Joseph (a son of Jacob and Rachel) and his son Ephraim"

"Ben Mendelsohn as Viceroy Hegep"

"Ben Kingsley as Nun (biblical figure) – Joshua's father, and a descendant of Joseph (a son of Jacob and Rachel) and his son Ephraim"

"Joel Edgerton as Ramses II – The son of Seti I and Queen Tuya, and the husband of Nefertari"

"Christian Bale as Moses – The adoptive son of Bithiah, the son of Amram and Jochebed, brother of Aaron and Miriam, the husband of Zipporah and father of Gershom, and the descendant of Levi (son of Jacob and Leah)"

"Moses: Remember this. I am prepared to fight. For eternity."

"John Turturro as Seti I – The father of Ramesses II, the son of Ramesses I (Paramessu) and Queen Tuya's husband"

"Sigourney Weaver as Tuya – the mother of Ramesses II and Seti I's wife"

"Blood! Boils! Locusts! Humongous, ship-devouring Nile crocodiles! Great white sharks! Whoever thought overwrought biblical epics were dead deserves a face-full of locusts and will get one watching Exodus: Gods and Kings. Ridley Scott’s grand and goofy take on Cecil B. DeMille’s holiday chestnut, The Ten Commandments, is a scant two-and-a-half hours compared to Paramount Pictures’ 1954 three-hour-plus marathon, and while Exodus is not quite as much fun (the reflective properties of Yul Brynner’s pate are sorely missed), it is very much in the tradition of Fifties and Sixties-era Biblical epics – and much more entertaining than Darren Aronofsky’s recent Noah (2014 film)."

"While the visuals can only be described using superlatives, some bits involving interpersonal relationships could have been more developed. However, scenes involving Moses and Ramses are often electrifying. So is the 'burning bush' sequence. The battles will take your breath away – crashing chariots, splintering spears, flaming arrows, metal against metal and more gore than you'd expect to see. Ramses's cold-blooded disregard for human life is shocking. But then the Ten Plagues unleashed on the Egyptians by God as punishment are unrelenting in their devastation. The Nile runs blood red, overflowing with dead fish. Masses of flies spread dread and disease. Clouds of locusts ravage crops and a sinister shadow of death creeps across the accursed land like a cold hand. Exodus: Gods and Kings is 'spectacle' with a capital 'S' and in more ways than one, definitely epic."

"While Ridley Scott is rightly hailed as a master cinematic world-builder, Exodus' ancient Egypt sometimes feels small and CG-heavy despite the use of practical sets, locations and swooping camera moves meant to convey an “epic” feel. The grandeur and scale of Rome that Scott's Gladiator conveyed is missing in his depiction of Egypt. More impressive, though, is his execution of the Ten Plagues, which are realized here as frightening elements worthy of a horror movie. As effective as the frogs and locusts sequences are it’s Scott’s depiction of the death of the first born that is especially frightening. But what should be the film’s most impressive and memorable set-piece, the parting of the Red Sea, feels rather underwhelming after the Ten Plagues. Perhaps you can't out-DeMille Cecil B. DeMille."

"That’s not to say faith leaders are going to urge congregations to flock to the theatres, however. Scott offers a secular out for every instance of the legendarily miraculous. Thus, the burning bush and everything that follows can be attributed to Moses (Bale, well-cast with his glower dialed up to 11) getting conked on the head by a falling rock after he’s cast out of Egypt by Pharaoh Ramses (Edgerton, resplendent in gold and kohl). There’s a wonderfully droll scene in Ramses’ court as his physician (Bremner, Trainspotting’s Spud) attempts to explain the finer points of how one plague logically leads to the next, via what we now call “bacteria.” Scott and his quartet of writers squeeze the Book of Exodus down to its most basic tenets, rendering it both a story of God-crossed pseudo-siblings and a thunderous series of generally awesome (as in “awe-inspiring”), CGI-assisted, action set-pieces. The parting of the Red Sea is preceded by a shot of Moses sleepily catching a glimpse of what appears to be a meteor crashing far out into the waves, which raises the question: Yahweh or tsunami? Or both? It doesn’t matter; the watery result is everything “epic” should be."