A wildly uneven series of comic vignettes loosely based on the Ten Commandments, this often is more successful at provocation than laughs. The movie is full of promising setups but only so-so payoffs: Oliver Platt as a really bad Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator; Winona Ryder as a woman who falls in love with a ventriloquist’s puppet; Gretchen Mol as a timid librarian who has a torrid affair with Jesus Christ – yes, that one – while on vacation in Mexico. The Ten, directed by David Wain, who wrote the script with Ken Marino, never fully takes advantage of its biblical premise. The commandments are jumping-off points, at best, and only loosely connected with segments hosted by Paul Rudd.
