Review – The Agony and the Ecstasy

If only I’d had this movie back when I was assigned to read Irving Stone’s novel in high school. Charlton Heston stars as Michelangelo in this tale of the artist’s tumultuous relationship with Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison), particularly the disputes between the two over the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Though Carol Reed directed, this turns out to be a fairly run-of-the-mill epic. Mildly amusing