Clash Of The Titans

Clash of the Titans

The mortal son of the god Zeus embarks on a perilous journey to stop the underworld and its minions from spreading their evil to Earth as well as the heavens

The Review

In the interests of calling a spade a spade, I am not going to compare this movie to the original film that came out in 1981. I am just going to compare this movie as a recent film starring the man of the moment Sam Worthington.

Worthington made his mark with Avatar, a movie that will be remembered for generations to come as it has set the bar in terms of effects and what a movie can visually achieve. It was interesting to see whether Worthington follows in the footsteps of Mark Hamill who is mostly only identified with Luke Skywalker.

(I think that it is ironic that Mark Hamill has voiced a lot of villains such as Joker, Gargoyles and Hob Goblins...despite being known as an super good guy)

For me this movie just never clicked. It felt both rushed as a movie, trying to pack in so much Greek mythology Hollywood-style. The deviation from the original movie was no secret and to be honest quite painful. The one scene with Bubo (Robo-Owl) was a great homage to the original movie and was what I felt the best scene in the whole the movie.

Perseus: [picking up a toy owl] What is this?
Draco: Just leave it!

I felt that the movie was working to hard to feel like a big movie, but it did not come off that way. The dialogue, musical scores and direction aimed big but it just fell flat.

My actual favourite performance was delivered by Draco, who conveyed the emotions of a warrior who had no other way and loved the way that had been chosen for him. There was a certain nous about his lines he delivered. Such as when Perseus asked Draco why he did not smile, and Draco replied he would smile the day he could spit in the face of the Gods.

For a movie that starred Liam Neelson and Ralph Fiennes as both Zeus and Hades respectively, there was never really any feeling that these were Gods. It never felt like they were superior beings. Just old men watching from a far as the mess they had created had created chaos and now they wanted to be remembered amongst the anarchy that lay before them.

There were some soldiers that accompanied Perseus on his voyage and one of them (with the pony tail) just kept smiling all the time. Even when the time was inappropriate, like when he was telling the Actor from Skins not to look at Maduesa

In essence it just felt like Perseus is screwed, ends up with Draco, goes on a mission to kill Hades and in turn save the princess, fights some boring crab monsters, gets to the witches who then tell him he needs Meduesa, gets her head and has to race back to defeat the the Kraken monster. Thats it. No big epic fights, no amazing fight scenes, no moment that you can either take away or quote with your friends.

One bad mess which is best forgotten