... Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov was in robust form with Exodus, the sequel to his 1994 Oscar-winner Burnt by the Sun, which follows the fortunes of the disgraced protagonist of that film in the turmoil of World War II. Staged on a massive scale and filled with amazingly powerful sequences (alongside a certain amount of empty bombast), the film ends abruptly with the promise of yet another sequel to come. ...