We meet young Amleth, a wincingly starry-eyed Viking princeling with a huge crush on his brutish King father (Ethan Hawke). Dad is like a traveling salesman who happens bring fresh slaves instead of trinkets as gifts for his family when he returns home after a long time away, so when he returns, the kid is …
For your 21st birthday, if your three older brothers and your cousin took you out into the woods, told you to strip, stand in a circle of rocks, and hold a sword to the sky for your initiation, well, you’d probably be looking around for a hidden camera just like confused Axl (Emmett Skilton). But …
As the Gods watch from high above, Hyperion’s (Mickey Rourke) army cuts a warpath through Greece, fully intending to find and use the Epirus Bow to free the Titans from their prison far beneath Mount Tartaros. The only thing standing between Hyperion and the bow is a man called Theseus (Henry Cavill), who has been …
Things are a little tense in the realm of perpetually feuding Greek gods Zeus (Sean Bean), Poseidon (Kevin McKidd) and Hades (Steve Coogan). The bickering brothers have long been at odds, but when someone steals Zeus’ lightning bolt an all-out, world-ravishing war is on deck. Meanwhile, on Earth, average high-schooler Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) discovers …
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Chris Hemsworth is pretty, I’ll admit that. Pretty enough where he is becoming another Matthew McConaughey, where he is required at least one gratuitous shirtless scene in each movie (because, see, it would be simply a waste if he didn’t). But, well, no matter all his deep-voiced bellowing, he just isn’t the most dynamic of …
The film is a dreamy, surreal, CGI- and bluescreen-heavy sci-fi fantasy adventure film that plays out in an overly complex and often convoluted manner but remains strangely, and almost hypnotically, engaging. Long story short: I liked it, but I’m not entirely sure why. The story (which is admittedly scattered) is set in the New York …