...only to unleash an abomination upon the earth. Jon Voight stars as Noah, who as we know is instructed by God to build an ark to save his family and all of the animals of the world when God floods the planet. Also featuring Mary Steenburgen as Noah's wife, F. Murray Abraham as Lot, Carol Kane as Lot's wife, and James Coburn as a traveling peddler.
As that cast list may have indicated, the producers play fast and loose with the biblical tale, awkwardly shoehorning the story of Lot into the Noah narrative. The tone is heavily comedic at times, so much so that one wonders if this was meant as a complete parody. The acting is terrible, even by the seasoned pros, but no one could save the awful dialogue. By the time the story gets to the bad CGI animals effects, and an eye-patch wearing Lot shows up leading a fleet of pirates who attempt to take the ark (!!!), this interminable mess has become an almost hallucinatory example of bad storytelling.
As that cast list may have indicated, the producers play fast and loose with the biblical tale, awkwardly shoehorning the story of Lot into the Noah narrative. The tone is heavily comedic at times, so much so that one wonders if this was meant as a complete parody. The acting is terrible, even by the seasoned pros, but no one could save the awful dialogue. By the time the story gets to the bad CGI animals effects, and an eye-patch wearing Lot shows up leading a fleet of pirates who attempt to take the ark (!!!), this interminable mess has become an almost hallucinatory example of bad storytelling.