Movie Review- Clash of the Titans
Clash of the Titans is a remake of the 1981 original and follows the same basic premise with way better special effects. Zeus is upset at the current human population because they no longer want to worship him. So against his better judgment he lets his sleazy brother Hades take charge of teaching human kind a lesson. Hades plan is to release the much-dreaded monster The Kraken in 10 days on a city unless they sacrifice their princess. Perseus just happens to be there while this all happens.
An enraged Hades tragically kills Perseus’s family at the beginning of the movie. So Perseus is more than happy to lead a group of soldiers and mercenaries to go find a way to kill The Kraken. Before he leaves he finds out that Zeus actually knocked up his mom so he’s somewhat God-like. Though I’m not exactly sure what that means except he seems to be pretty good with a sword all of a sudden, more on that later. Most of the movie follows Perseus and his group as they fight huge Scorpions, scary witches, Medusa, his mom’s former husband turned bad guy, and The Kraken.
It takes about 30 long minutes before we get our first action scene and the movie picks up a little. Still the movie never took me anywhere amazing. The special effects, make up, costumes, art direction, and cinematography were all great but have been done just as good in much better films (Lord of the Rings anybody). The creatures looked like they stepped out of a Guillermo del Toro movie, which was cool. The action scenes are ok but very short (it takes about 5 minutes for The Kraken to come out of the water and like one minute to kill it) while the dialogue scenes were long and boring.
The only interesting characters to me were Zeus (Liam Neeson) and Hades (Ralph Fiennes). They don’t have many scenes but I enjoyed every scene they had together. The romantic subplot (how little there was) is very weak. Someone tell me why Perseus didn’t have a romantic relationship with the princess Andromeda. That would have made much more sense and would have made me care more about the plot which revolves around saving the princess. Also someone tell me how once given a sword Perseus turns into an action star when he’s spent his whole life as a fisher man. I guess part of being a Demi God means you can do cool flips and fight in slow motion. I would skip this film and watch either the animation movie Hercules or the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Rated PG-13 for fantasy action violence, scary images, and brief sensuality
Director: Louis Leterrier
Starring: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes
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