Don't get me wrong I love this type of film, and my friends will tell you I am very easy going when it comes to critiquing Hollywood blockbusters, and it did have all of the elements to make it a great mindless sitting there with a bucket of popcorn 2 hour excursion to ancient Greece. The problem was none of it really came together and despite all of the action it was really, really boring.
You want to fight as a man. I don't care.
You've killed Medusa. I don't care.
You have to get Medusa's head back to Argos. I don't care.
You killed the Kraken. I don't care.
You sent Hades back to the underworld. I don't care.
Zeus has botox all over his face. I don't care, but Liam Neeson your better than this.
Let's set the ending up for a sequel. I DON'T CARE.
Problem 1 Accents: Pete Posthletwaite (again don't know or care if this is spelt right) adopted Perseus, fine. Pete and his wife had an English accent, not fine, but I will discuss this in a later post, but I can accept it. Perseus grows up with two English accented parents and his first words in the film might as well have been "Throw another Shrimp on the Barbie". What the fuck? And the trend continued. Liam Cunningham, great grumpy Irish actor, doing a English accent. 2 other red shirts with American accents. The 2 only really Greek looking guys in the film with Armid Djalilli Iranian accents? Again, the Fuck?
Problem 2 3D: The 3D was shit! I spent the first twenty minutes wondering was I watching the the 2D version. You can completely tell they did it slap dash at the last minute because of Avatar. You used to see better 3D in the 80's on Channel 4.
Problem 3 Sam Worthington: Someone needs to tell Sam Worthington to fuck off. Ok, he was the best thing in Terminator Salvation, where he played a confused wooden cyborg.
He was the worst thing about Avatar, where he played a blue confused em... avatar.
And in Clash he just looked confused.
Problem 4 Louis Letterier. I really like everything the guy has done up until now, but this just had no heart! Again all of the elements were there for it to be great but some key areas were just missing. There was no spark
So if I was to boil it down to what exactly made it bad.
1. The director took a misstep
2. The score wasn't good enough
3. Sam Worthington's shitness
Rant over, you may carry on.
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