The legend says that if you focus well on something during a battle (like watching your adopted brother fighting) suddenly the enemies stop noticing you and forget about attacking you.

1st thought: "How did I miss that movie?" Immediate 2nd thought: "Thank God I missed that movie".

The battle of Kadesh was one of the best recorded Bronze Age battle, was the largest recorded chariot engagement, and led to the first ever recorded international peace agreement. Ramses marched three divisions north against the Hittite Empire. His division was caught off guard by a Hittite division maneuvering behind the “old city” which hid their approach. Ramses was cut off but managed to fight his way out. The battle likely ended in a draw, however the Egyptian army withdrew so it was most likely a tactical defeat. Both rulers sold the battle as a victory to their respective kingdoms. This scene is not that.

Steel two handed swords in bronze age, damn this movie is a historians nightmare.

For anyone worried you may be caught unaware by a massive army charging towards you fear not, you would hear them well before they get close... And if they spend the entire time running at you, they wont make it close before they are exhausted. Stay Safe out there.

The only part this movie gets right about the battle of Kadesh is Ramses being temporarily alone and apart from his troops. In the Egyptian account there is a moment when Ramses states, "No officer was with me, no charioteer, no soldier of the army, no shield-bearer." The actual battle was not the Egyptians attacking the Hittites but the opposite as it was the latter who attacked the Egyptian camp. The Hittites eventually withdrew. Also considered a draw, the Egyptians suffered a tactical defeat as they were unable carry through with the plan to attack Kadesh.

3000+ years of Ancient Egyptian history yet not one movie that could depict them accurately in a good way. Why ?

I loved the part when Moses says, 'I am Batman.'

3:37 Bro just stabs a guy and keeps walking, without pulling the sword out.

0:14 Well, that's a tent fire waiting to happen..

I love how many historical inconsistencies there are... like mounted cavalry, or mailcoat

1:04 why would archers yell "Fire!" to coordinate the release of their arrows in this era? This was before gunpowder.

It’s crazy how good the camera quality was back then, yet security cams and alien sighting footage looks like it was shot Before Christ

nothing shouts "kill me I'm the head of this army!" as someone wearing a golden scaled armour into battle. only missing two hype trumpets honking his arrival

How time changes cinema In the movie "TEN COMMANDMENTS" from 1956 Moses was depicted as a great architect, directing the construction of monuments in honor of his adoptive father the Pharaon. But in "Exodus: Gods and Kings" he's a general and a great warrior Nowadays epic battles entertain more than long talks

I cant believe such a battle occurd in 2014. Atleast we managed to shoot this battle on camera

Gold scale armor, straight steel swords, lances with cloth banners ... in the Battle of Kadesh (1276 BC)? I don't think so.

Ramses charioteer was probably like "bruh im still alive"

Got to love the cavalry charge about 1000 years before the invention of the stirrup made that possible....There's a reason the ancients used chariots, because the saddle hadn't even been invented yet, making riding horseback all but impossible, let alone fighting from horseback.

1:05 : "Fire!" MUHAHAHA

can we all appreciate those dirt throws. Thanks steve for throwing dirt so the shot could look epic 4:29

Hittite four horses chariots ?? Egyptian soldiers on horses ?? Hittite soldiers using a long Thracian sword ? Thats not ancient egyptian world !

The ability to find a friend or foe on a battlefield of thousands never ceases to amaze me. Well done Exodus, Braveheart, The Patriot, etc.

0:52 how the hell hard is it to say "Loose" instead of "Fire" when no one EVER said "Fire" in that context until well after 1475 and the first match lock. 🤦‍♂️

My uncle was at the battle, he said it didn't go down like that

The amount of steel, Iron and modern swords, axes and so. Also very few had horses large enough to ride, that's why they had chariots! History cries in corner.

Wow.. Look at the Egyptians, rocking all those medieval equipments in the Bronze Age 😂

If the Egyptians had used chariot tactics like that then the (real) battle would not have been the draw it was, but a clear Hittite victory.

"But Ramses is not dancing he does not dance at the Party" -Nacho

Christian Bale 😀 he is always lost in his own perfection ❤️🔥

A Welsh Moses and a Aussie Ramses, nice love history Hollywood style

I am Egyptian and I loved this battle

Wish we had more of this in the movie

Kadesh não tem nada a ver com isso. A batalha é empolgante mas Ramses não era tolo. A batalha não foi contra selvagens mas contra hititas que estavam em seu território. O Egito disputava com os hititas a fortaleza de Kadesh próximo de Alepo na Síria do Norte. Haviam 5 divisões egípcias de 5 a 10 mil homens cada e uma divisão a mais, a Ne'arin. Ramsés quase venceu mas passou o dia lutando pela vida porque os hititas atacaram de surpresa. Dispersaram a divisão Ra que fugiu para o acampamento da divisão Amon onde o Faraó estava preparando cerco. A divisão Ptah e a Seth chegaram depois para a luta e se depararam com o Faraó lutando em pessoa, rodeado pelo que restou das divisões Amon e Ra. A divisão Ne'Arin chegou por trás da linha hitita e os fez fugir. Nesse dia até príncipes sírios morreram afogados no Rio Orontes que ficava próximo. As reservas hititas observaram seus carros serem destruídos por completo. No dia seguinte o Faraó estava a frente do exército completo para derrotar a infantaria hitita de 37 mil homens mas acabaram em um cessar fogo porque o Egito tinha que lutar contra líbios e os hititas contra os povos do mar. Passaram mais 20 anos em batalhas por Dapur e Damasco até que assinaram o primeiro tratado de paz da história. Isso sim foi Kadesh.

It's funny how you can make actors do anything if you pay them enough.

The ancients used chariots because the horses were not large and strong enough (yet) at the time to carry a single armed soldier into battle. Once strong enough horses have been bred, chariot use stopped as cavalry was superior to chariots in all aspects. This battle depicts large formations of cavalry next to chariots which would make no sense in any army.

One of my favorite fantasy movies out there

I love reading all of the comments about white dudes playing Egyptians but won't say a thing when a black dude plays a Greek or a black woman plays the queen of England

Terrific Calvary charge considering the stirrup wasn’t invented until the 7th century by Frankish knights.

No computers, smartphones and other modern stuff, just people living a moment.

You could call it the battle of Kadesh all you want, but this is not the battle of Kadesh!

Yeah steel, iron, and the Egyptian chariots wheels are supposed to have 6 spokes, not 8. Not very historically accurate.

Horse archers, sabres..., linear formations..., strong bows... from a throusand to 2 thousand years still to go.

Joel 'Ramses' Edgerton who'd a thunk it. Suspension of disbelief is a key factor for this watch

In the very last picture it really looks like two dudes just threw dirt from both sides into the front of the camera :D!

Nobody fights like that when their is attacking you form defencinve formation.

Ridley Scott needs to do series work I think.

Well filmed, congratulations to the director

Amo l'Egitto 🇪🇬 dall'Italia 🇮🇹 siamo uno di fronte all'altro nel Mediterraneo e questa è una cosa meravigliosa🇪🇬🇮🇹❤

Ah, yes, I remember this in Exodus chapter 497 starting on verse 9000... :/

I love this movie

2014? Wow, I never even heard about this movie. I can see now why.

Western Europeans with British accents in Bronze Age Egypt

Just about the only thing they got right was that there was fighting in the Hittite camp and the chariots did get caught up in it.

Should the swords not be of bronze and should have the bronze color?

"P-51, Cadillac of the skies!!"

such a beautiful morning ruined by such rudeness.

Are those supposed to be Hittites? Hardly.

1:32 Moses leading Set division on the flank

Best movie ever

They all look very.... Hollywood

Watches movie made in Hollywood for the general audience History fans: iTs So HoLlYwoOd

This movie is great but they really need to make an Ad Astra 2. That movie was amazing with such cool plot twists. Up until COVID a group of us watched Ad Astra every weekend at the cheap theatre. There was 15-20 of us and we managed to keep the movie in the theatres for over a whole year playing every Saturday. Our goal was to make it last as long as possible, now that moment has fizzled out. Hopefully we can get it up and running again. If you want to see an Ad Astra 2 let me know! We have a fan club you can join. Ad Astra should have swept the Oscars but unfortunately people have shit taste in movies.

nice clip though, and movie still nice to look on.

I have not watched this movie and I am happy now: make-up wearing men with laminate armour, riding horses with stirrups during hight of Egypt - it is too much even for movies.

He’s Batman.

There are many inaccuracies in this portrayal. However, it does make for a great cinematic effect

you said no addictive , yet you just said you keep going back to it LOL

What happened to the Egyptian Kopesh? Also, those are a lot of banners.

How brave a king he was in front of the army.... Wow

Like the doctor against the pandemic 👨‍⚕👍

It reminds me of fighting with my cousins for the last motza ball

Steal swords in the bronze age?

wow I never saw this movie before, but I think I will pass. If all the battle scenes are this unrealistic it would have to have a wonderful story line to be worth watching.

4:05 literally an arrow almost kill him and he continues like nothing happens

Love that movie

歴史的なエジプトとヒッタイトとの戦闘シーン、具体的で面白かった。

Ese no es el empleo correcto de un carro de guerra Egipcio, ellos se limitarían a acercarse a los enemigos y llenarlos de flechas, jamás chocarían con una formación militar si no fuera estrictamente necesario, eso anularía su principal fortaleza que era lanzar proyectiles.

ahh miss those days.. .when i dont have a care in the world.

The cuts broke my vision.

Kids who don't read history "The past was so much better" *the past The actual Bronze Age was 100x worse of course

Every time, every time hollywood thinks old, she immediately thinks about leather. Leather everywhere ... Including ridiculous leather scale armor. For the love of God. The person will take the trouble to cut small pieces of leather and sew on a piece of leather. Without offering any extra protection like that, it would be much easier to put 2 pieces of leather right away! They must think that we will be happy simply because they left a main character with a helmet all the time! For those who really want to know how the battle of Kadesh went, I followed the link to the video for "Kings and Generals" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b8iPdMVqrK3GZps.html

3-4 Ranks Infantry against Chariots...oh boy

everybody is history expert until their views are represented in the movie then they go wild like everybody else

Had the Hittites pulled their reserves out of the city, they would have won

3:52 he already thought about killing him lol

What forced Moses save Ramses scene😂

Glad to see we're finally gonna make the Biblical Cinematic Universe a thing hahaha

Impressive battle scene. Miscasting made it laughable.

Wow 😁😁

I like how they need someone to warn them about the massive army thundering towards them

Amazing how, in this MASSIVE, epic, beautiful opening sequence ... not one bit of that music was remotely memorable. As opposed to Gladiator, which had theme after theme after theme introduced in that opening battle sequence.

Someone explain me why there are iron weapons and armor in a period where they were still fighting with bronze?

Steel, metal armour, helmets off in the middle of battle, brittle chariots, STUPID clumped up chariots, far too much iron on those chariots as well. Infantry running towards chariots?!?!? Why not save yourself the time and just march them into a meatgrinder instead? Besides, they did not use chariots as charging cavalry at the beginning of the battle. It would have been alot of either skirmishing or flanking maneuvers around the infantry to cut down the poor sods caught on the flank. The infantry formed ineffective small blocks. If they had been one massive blob, it might have looked realistic. And as always, the effortless stab through a chest and armour. Why do they even bother wearing it? Also: If this is supposed to be Moses` time, this was LONG before people had invented saddles or stirrups. So cavalry was non-existent. I think cavalry as in formations of men and horse is like 500 BC? It is why they had chariots! It is the first way we discovered to use horses effectively in combat. It`s like having an army of 16th century knights (chariots) fighting mid-20th century tanks (cavalry)! Actually, more. I think Moses is supposed to be more than 1000 BC. So probably no iron. Definitely not scale armour in iron and absolutely not steel. And im not even a historian. Tip for any youngsters: If you like historical movies, dont learn about history. The movies will just let you down afterwards.

Actually, King Rameses won the battle of Kadesh single-handedly. It must be true; Rameses said so himself.

2:33 the classic christian bale scream

Lol so sloppy, at 3:37 he 'stabs' the guy to the side of his body, then carries on without withdrawing the blade because of course he just stabbed air.

Glory egypt♥️♥️🇪🇬

Hollywood: “We need diversity in our historical films, where are all of the POC Vikings”? Also Hollywood: “Yes Christian Bale as Moses, yes, that is good”.

i have to respect the Pharaoh because he actually went into battle, into harms way. Unlike modern day rulers and kings sending young men to die for their agendas while hiding behind luxury palaces and armed guards.