Hello All,
I have to admit the first time I saw a trailer for this film, It looked pretty bad in the special effects department. In the back of my mind though, I was kind of hoping for a good old fashioned swords and sandals epic. For anyone who doesn’t know, basically a swords and sandals movie is basically any film that takes place in the era of gods, and would generally have a hero go on an adventure fighting monsters and soldiers and so on. The most recent attempts at these were the Jai Courtney titan movies from a few years ago (I think.) So did I get my swords and sandals epic? Let’s find out together shall we?
Plot Summary - When the Egyptian God of Darkness Set (Gerard Butler) forces his way into becoming king of Egypt, it’s up to the God Horus (Nikolaj Coster - Waldau) and the human thief Bek (Brenton Thwaites) to stop him.
Pros - The best actor in this film by far, is Chadwick Boseman as Thoth, the God of Wisdom. He plays the character of an all knowing god who knows that he is the smartest and blatantly acts like it. He brings genuines humour and charm to the character, and I wished he had had a bigger part in this movie. There are also parts of this movie in terms of sets and costume design that are pretty cool……
Cons - …...While most of it, especially the gods transformed states, look like complete shit. No joke, there were parts of the film that looked liked their human heads were photoshopped onto God bodies. Other times it looks like the world around hasn't rendered properly and the only really impressive moments are of the wide landscapes. Not to mention the rest of the cast is pretty damn unlikeable and not in the good way. Thwaites as Bek is annoying, Nikolaj as Horus goes through the type of story arc that all films like this have, Gerard is kind of having some fun as Set but to me he’s just doing the same thing he always does. Geoffrey Rush plays Ra and god love him he probably knew this was going to be bad cause he’s just on auto pilot. The story is dull, predictable, and really overly convoluted. Truthfully, the whole film is just boring, and the whitewashed cast (while a problem in Hollywood overall yes) is truthfully the least of this film's problems.
Final Score - 1/10
If I did half scores, It’d be a 1.5/10. I’m honestly amazed this didn’t come out in January because my god this is dog shit. If the casting controversy had not already dissuaded you from seeing it, hopefully this review will.
Next: Eddie the Eagle - Like I said, it was a coin flip kind of a day. If I can I will also try and do catch up on some films this week as well.
Until then, I’ll see you folks at the movies.
Before I forget, I will be trying to do streams more often, so quick self plug for the channel here: http://www.twitch.tv/reservoir222
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