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One has already been mentioned, Anouk Aimee greeting her subjects with the immortal line, "Greetings, Sodomites!" This is the equal of anything in the infamous, utterly hilarious 1956 John Wayne-as-Genghis Khan disaster, "The Conqueror."

The other is a great short scene between Stanley Baker and Ms. Aimee, playing brother and sister, that simply crackles with over-the-top incestuous sexual tension, as he passionately bites the oversized jewel from the ring on her shapely hand, whilst her eyes smoulder with dangerous desire.

Other than that, this is a middling biblical epic, but certainly no classic.

5/10.

I'm a huge fan of Lindsey Davis' mystery series set in First Century Rome, and was really disappointed by this filmic conflation of several of her early Marcus Didius Falco novels. The primary flaw, which spoils anything good in the movie (and there IS some good stuff here) is the woeful miscasting of Bryan Brown as Falco. I've loved Brown in several other movies, but he isn't the guy for this role. Most especially distressing is his lower-class Aussie accent, which is completely wrong for Falco -- he could never have won the heart of a Senator's daughter talking like this!

It's really a shame, because the Falco series deserves a treatment like what the BBC provided for "I, Claudius." It's that good.

Frankly, I don't understand the many crabby IMDB reviewers who put this movie down as "unfunny" or "a waste of time." I'm rather a snob, myself, when it comes to movies, and I had a really great time laughing at the hilarious situations which the two medieval time-travelers get into in 2001 Chicago. Sure, it's not one of the most subtle and elegant of comedies, but I thought it was fun throughout, and some of the scenes were absolutely priceless. I'll definitely have to find a copy of the French original on which "Just Visiting" is based since, apparently, it's even better.