This is a remake of a 1981 film of the same name. When I first saw the trailer for this I didn't think that it looked very good. However one of my favorite actors, Mads Mikkelsen, is in it so I decided to watch it. Besides, we had just seen Malpertuis, so Greek mythology became a little mini-theme for the week. It was definitely not as a bad as I expected. Nevertheless, it was terribly unoriginal. I thought that Ralph Fiennes (whom I did not recognize) was terrible, playing a kind of Panto villain. And there were hardly any scenes involving the gods! The extras on the DVD included many of the excised gods scenes and gives you a glimpse at how halfway decent the movie could have been if someone wasn't so determined to just showcase the action and the CGI.
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