Ben Meyers’
rating: 2.2|5.0
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Clash of the Titans starts with a female voice
narrating the history of the gods. Then, the story focuses on a fishing boat
out to sea. The fisherman finds a casket floating close by his fishing boat and
opens it to find a living baby boy lying on its dead mother’s chest. The
fisherman raises the baby as his own son. At this point, the audience is
engaged and interested. But from this point forward, the acting and the
storyline race each other to see which one can reach the bottom of the barrel
first. Clash of the Titans graphics
are great; the story is great—a classic with an overall great concept However,
Director Louis Leterrier was not able to pull the greatness of the story onto
the screen. When leaving the theater, one of my colleagues said, “Not many
people can take such a large scale concept and successfully cram it into an
hour and forty-six minutes.” This is a case where more playing time is needed
to expose a terrific story to the maximum. The movie rates as a lower two-star only
because of the large scale graphics and the terrific monster fights. Without
those, this movie can’t pull two-star rating. Definitely not a movie worth watching
again.
Film Poster Courtesy of Wikipedia
Storyline
The
fisherman, Spyros (Pete Postlethwaite), finds an infant who grows up to become the demigod, Perseus (Sam
Worthington).
Additional Thanks
Thank you to Director Louis Leterrier for directing efforts.
Thank you to Executive Producers Brenda Berrisford, William Fay, Jon Jashni,
Thomas Tull, and Richard D. Zanuck for making the film possible. Additional characters/cast
include: Zeus (Liam Neeson), Hades (Ralph Fiennes), Calibos/Acrisius (Jason
Flemyng), Io (Gemma Arterton), Andromeda (Alexa Davalos), Danae (Tine
Stapelfeldt), and Draco (Mads Mikkelsen).
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