Entertaining, but not epic. Definitely a movie which will polarise the audience. Some will like it, some will hate it with a vengeance.
I think the Director was a bit conflicted. On one hand, I think he recognised that he was re-making an epic movie. So he made some concept references to the first version (like the mechanical owl and the flying goblins. On the other hand, I think he didn't want to be in the shadow of the original, and so he added some of his own ideas.
The original movie was 3 hours long. This was 1.5 hours. This resulted in several logic leaps (like in one moment Perseus was a prisoner, in another he is a Demi-God (all because Hades looked at him and said, "Lim peh"). Or why Andromeda will walk up to him and offer him wine. Or why the 3 witches would go on at length about Perseus going to die and he didn't.
The action sequences also seemed disjointed. Fast fast... slow slow... fast fast... this leads to most viewers getting irritated, bored quickly. Read the Straits Times review... I think I thats is the reason why most reviewers think the fight scenes were too long. Also probably because the Producers were trying to jump on the 3D bandwagon, you cannot help but think that some of the fight sequences were "complicated" because it was to cater to the 3D audience (like the last scene of goblins in the city) - too fast for the naked eye, just nice for 3D effects.
All in all, the 3 points made a very confused movie and a more confused audience. Hence, only entertaining, not epic.
Am going to look for the original. Clay effects rule!
5 / 10
I think the Director was a bit conflicted. On one hand, I think he recognised that he was re-making an epic movie. So he made some concept references to the first version (like the mechanical owl and the flying goblins. On the other hand, I think he didn't want to be in the shadow of the original, and so he added some of his own ideas.
The original movie was 3 hours long. This was 1.5 hours. This resulted in several logic leaps (like in one moment Perseus was a prisoner, in another he is a Demi-God (all because Hades looked at him and said, "Lim peh"). Or why Andromeda will walk up to him and offer him wine. Or why the 3 witches would go on at length about Perseus going to die and he didn't.
The action sequences also seemed disjointed. Fast fast... slow slow... fast fast... this leads to most viewers getting irritated, bored quickly. Read the Straits Times review... I think I thats is the reason why most reviewers think the fight scenes were too long. Also probably because the Producers were trying to jump on the 3D bandwagon, you cannot help but think that some of the fight sequences were "complicated" because it was to cater to the 3D audience (like the last scene of goblins in the city) - too fast for the naked eye, just nice for 3D effects.
All in all, the 3 points made a very confused movie and a more confused audience. Hence, only entertaining, not epic.
Am going to look for the original. Clay effects rule!
5 / 10
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