Clash of the Titans… man I was so excited about this movie. Like many, as a kid I was big on the Greek mythology, the stories of The Olympians and such. So as I heard more and more about this movie while it was developing, I was pretty excited; though admittedly when the original trailer’s tagline was “Titans Will Clash” I was concerned, but that got fixed.
Warning now, there will probably be spoilers in this review, you have been warned.
So, Clash of the Titans follows the story of Perseus, one of the first heroes of Greek mythology; son of Zeus, king of the Gods and the mortal wife of his rival… which made me a touch confused as this is well after the tale of the Olympians and the Titans.
The movie opens with a brief exposition of the war of the Olympians and the Titans, the separation of realms between Zeus and his brothers, Poseidon and Hades, Zeus’ deception of Hades and basically paints the Olympians as huge douches.
So, right away we find Perseus as an infant found by a fisherman, a quick flash forward to him as a child being told by his adopted father that he is loved, then another jump forward of Perseus as a young man and Hades offs his family, so naturally he wants revenge.
Perseus is played by Sam Worthington, who I feel has been rolling with some very positive momentum in his roles from Terminator Salvation and Avatar. He’s found a comfortable niche for himself as the John Everyman hero/sympathetic badass, and that skill set carries over into Perseus.
So, like most of Sam Worthington’s characters, he has lost everything and is a man broken and hollow but somehow manages to score this ridiculously awesome opportunity to make something of himself. In this case he is taken in by the soldiers in the city of Argos and is brought before the royal family; the royal family has declared war on the Olympians.
This is where the story starts to fall to crap.
We’re never really given a clear exposition on why the royal family has declared war on Zeus and the gods. The movie hints about how rough times are as the fish aren’t biting and the poor are miserable, but the royal family clearly lives an exceedingly luxurious life so these hardships are irrelevant to them. They also state arrogant reasonings for declaring war, but this also seems weak as, really, if you think you’re better than someone, usually you’ll just go do your own thing; if I think I’m better at something than someone else, I’ll just go my own way, I’m not going to declare bloody war on that person.
From there on the story becomes a rushed clusterbomb of elements borrowed from other epics, primarily Star Wars; if you go see this movie keep a conscious eye out for Star Wars similarities, it’s quite frightening.
All I can say about the story is, that it does maintain accuracy to the tales of Perseus for the most part, but it feel so very very rushed that you can feel that something is just lacking that you can’t put your finger on.
I don’t want to sound like one of the thousands of internet reviewers who think everything sucks, (if you want to be entertained by someone who thinks everything sucks then you would go watch Angry Video Game Nerd, Nostalgia Critic or The Spoony One; I am not at the comedic caliber of those gentlemen) but I just couldn’t get fully immersed in this movie and I wish I could have.
Visually this movie is incredible. The vision of this universe of Greek mythos is fantastic and stunning to behold. The CGI is top notch as mythological characters and beats are brought startlingly to life.
The cast is terrific, Liam Neeson portrays an nontraditional but still marvelous depiction of Zeus, Ralph Fiennes steals the show as Hades, and Sam Worthington nails the role as the movie’s hero.
Dynamic elements in the movie are also great. The comic relief is done very sparingly, and when done it’s normally very subtle so it does provide that moment of brevity but doesn’t compromise the gravity of the story. A very clever homage to the original movie also makes a very brief appearance, you will chuckle when you see it.
The soundtrack was well done, it wasn’t comprised of memorable orchestrals that will stick in your head, but it was tasteful and suited the movie.
The only weakness of this movie was a grave weakness; and that was character development and exposition. There was hardy any time put into the characters to make you care about them and what might happen to them. For example, the character of princess Andromeda is portrayed as this compassionate young woman who feels the plight of the poor, but never once is it explained why this girl who has had a sheltered and privileged life would have such a soft spot for the lower classes of people that she’s been clearly segregated from. Also in the Greek mythos, Andromeda and Perseus wed, but at the end of this movie the female leads have been so poorly developed that you’re not entirely sure who Perseus has wound up with, Andromeda or the mysterious character Io, who served as a half romantic interest for the majority of the movie but dies; the movie does show some chemistry between Andromeda and Perseus, but it’s never once explained, they haven’t had any interactions to fall in love with one another. It’s just poorly led.
Likewise the supporting cast of soldiers and such that aid Perseus, when the predictable demises of some of them happen, the viewer feels nothing because there’s been no connection made with these characters. I felt more connection with the CGI wooden man who mumbled in an ancient unknown language than the human beings I was watching brave this harrowing adventure.
Places and legendary beasts are thoroughly explained, the exposition here is wonderful, and likewise the exposition of the Titans and the Olympians at the start of the movie is well done. The betrayal of Zeus by Hades is well explained and you can appreciate the motives behind it; actually it’s covered so well that I actually kind of felt sympathy for Hades, who was supposed to be this abhorrently terrible villain, but dude got screwed over by Zeus.
So much exposition was put into these little segments of the movie, but the larger parts were left kind of like “it’s there, just go with it”.
Possibly the worst character development (not that there were many comparisons in this movie) was this character of a prophet. He declares his bizarre thoughts as being for the benefit of mankind, and though it’s an undesirable route, his intentions are clearly to save mankind; but then at the end of the movie, as Perseus arrives to save the day, he tries to kill Perseus. He went from trying to save mankind to trying to kill their hero; it felt like the movie suddenly was like “oh crap, we need more villains to round this movie out… umm… make the crazy prophet evil, don’t explain why just do it”.
The storytelling and character development just feels lazy, and the one element that is thoroughly hyped is this unavoidable final confrontation of Perseus against Hades and the Kraken.
But once it finally comes it’s over in like, 45 seconds… seriously it was as disappointing as the final battle in Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen.
I wanted to enjoy this movie, I really did. I fought so hard not to sound like all those other online reviewers who hate everything, and I began to fight to find things I enjoyed about this movie and convince myself I wasn’t feeling bored. If I need to fight
to enjoy a movie, that’s a problem.
I don’t want to say this is a bad movie, because it had so much potential to be awesome and had every element to become 2010’s first true epic, but stale characters and lazy storytelling ruined the experience for me.
The movie clocks in a bit over an hour and a half, and I honestly would have given this movie permission to stretch to three hours if it meant it could have done better with the resources given to it; I’ll take a numb ass and good storytelling over a rushed “crash boom bang we’re done” action flick.
The best comparison I can give this movie is to a road trip where the radio’s broken; there’s so much chance for this to be awesome but it just was missing that one element that makes or breaks the enjoyment factors.
Oh yeah and another piss off: the Titans aren’t even in this movie, it should have been titled Clash of the Gods or Clash of Olympus or Clash of Men and Gods or Perseus Thinks Hades is a Dick, I dunno but anything would have been more appropriate than Clash of the Titans as a title.
I’m out.
Clash of the Titans… man I was so excited about this movie. Like many, as a kid I was big on the Greek mythology, the stories of The Olympians and such. So as I heard more and more about this movie while it was developing, I was pretty excited; though admittedly when the original trailer’s tagline was “Titans Will Clash” I was concerned, but that got fixed.
Warning now, there will probably be spoilers in this review, you have been warned.
So, Clash of the Titans follows the story of Perseus, one of the first heroes of Greek mythology; son of Zeus, king of the Gods and the mortal wife of his rival… which made me a touch confused as this is well after the tale of the Olympians and the Titans.
The movie opens with a brief exposition of the war of the Olympians and the Titans, the separation of realms between Zeus and his brothers, Poseidon and Hades, Zeus’ deception of Hades and basically paints the Olympians as huge douches.
So, right away we find Perseus as an infant found by a fisherman, a quick flash forward to him as a child being told by his adopted father that he is loved, then another jump forward of Perseus as a young man and Hades offs his family, so naturally he wants revenge.
Perseus is played by Sam Worthington, who I feel has been rolling with some very positive momentum in his roles from Terminator Salvation and Avatar. He’s found a comfortable niche for himself as the John Everyman hero/sympathetic badass, and that skill set carries over into Perseus.
So, like most of Sam Worthington’s characters, he has lost everything and is a man broken and hollow but somehow manages to score this ridiculously awesome opportunity to make something of himself. In this case he is taken in by the soldiers in the city of Argos and is brought before the royal family; the royal family has declared war on the Olympians.
This is where the story starts to fall to crap.
We’re never really given a clear exposition on why the royal family has declared war on Zeus and the gods. The movie hints about how rough times are as the fish aren’t biting and the poor are miserable, but the royal family clearly lives an exceedingly luxurious life so these hardships are irrelevant to them. They also state arrogant reasonings for declaring war, but this also seems weak as, really, if you think you’re better than someone, usually you’ll just go do your own thing; if I think I’m better at something than someone else, I’ll just go my own way, I’m not going to declare bloody war on that person.
From there on the story becomes a rushed clusterbomb of elements borrowed from other epics, primarily Star Wars; if you go see this movie keep a conscious eye out for Star Wars similarities, it’s quite frightening.
All I can say about the story is, that it does maintain accuracy to the tales of Perseus for the most part, but it feel so very very rushed that you can feel that something is just lacking that you can’t put your finger on.
I don’t want to sound like one of the thousands of internet reviewers who think everything sucks, (if you want to be entertained by someone who thinks everything sucks then you would go watch Angry Video Game Nerd, Nostalgia Critic or The Spoony One; I am not at the comedic caliber of those gentlemen) but I just couldn’t get fully immersed in this movie and I wish I could have.
Visually this movie is incredible. The vision of this universe of Greek mythos is fantastic and stunning to behold. The CGI is top notch as mythological characters and beats are brought startlingly to life.
The cast is terrific, Liam Neeson portrays an nontraditional but still marvelous depiction of Zeus, Ralph Fiennes steals the show as Hades, and Sam Worthington nails the role as the movie’s hero.
Dynamic elements in the movie are also great. The comic relief is done very sparingly, and when done it’s normally very subtle so it does provide that moment of brevity but doesn’t compromise the gravity of the story. A very clever homage to the original movie also makes a very brief appearance, you will chuckle when you see it.
The soundtrack was well done, it wasn’t comprised of memorable orchestrals that will stick in your head, but it was tasteful and suited the movie.
The only weakness of this movie was a grave weakness; and that was character development and exposition. There was hardy any time put into the characters to make you care about them and what might happen to them. For example, the character of princess Andromeda is portrayed as this compassionate young woman who feels the plight of the poor, but never once is it explained why this girl who has had a sheltered and privileged life would have such a soft spot for the lower classes of people that she’s been clearly segregated from. Also in the Greek mythos, Andromeda and Perseus wed, but at the end of this movie the female leads have been so poorly developed that you’re not entirely sure who Perseus has wound up with, Andromeda or the mysterious character Io, who served as a half romantic interest for the majority of the movie but dies; the movie does show some chemistry between Andromeda and Perseus, but it’s never once explained, they haven’t had any interactions to fall in love with one another. It’s just poorly led.
Likewise the supporting cast of soldiers and such that aid Perseus, when the predictable demises of some of them happen, the viewer feels nothing because there’s been no connection made with these characters. I felt more connection with the CGI wooden man who mumbled in an ancient unknown language than the human beings I was watching brave this harrowing adventure.
Places and legendary beasts are thoroughly explained, the exposition here is wonderful, and likewise the exposition of the Titans and the Olympians at the start of the movie is well done. The betrayal of Zeus by Hades is well explained and you can appreciate the motives behind it; actually it’s covered so well that I actually kind of felt sympathy for Hades, who was supposed to be this abhorrently terrible villain, but dude got screwed over by Zeus.
So much exposition was put into these little segments of the movie, but the larger parts were left kind of like “it’s there, just go with it”.
Possibly the worst character development (not that there were many comparisons in this movie) was this character of a prophet. He declares his bizarre thoughts as being for the benefit of mankind, and though it’s an undesirable route, his intentions are clearly to save mankind; but then at the end of the movie, as Perseus arrives to save the day, he tries to kill Perseus. He went from trying to save mankind to trying to kill their hero; it felt like the movie suddenly was like “oh crap, we need more villains to round this movie out… umm… make the crazy prophet evil, don’t explain why just do it”.
The storytelling and character development just feels lazy, and the one element that is thoroughly hyped is this unavoidable final confrontation of Perseus against Hades and the Kraken.
But once it finally comes it’s over in like, 45 seconds… seriously it was as disappointing as the final battle in Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen.
I wanted to enjoy this movie, I really did. I fought so hard not to sound like all those other online reviewers who hate everything, and I began to fight to find things I enjoyed about this movie and convince myself I wasn’t feeling bored. If I need to fight
to enjoy a movie, that’s a problem.
I don’t want to say this is a bad movie, because it had so much potential to be awesome and had every element to become 2010’s first true epic, but stale characters and lazy storytelling ruined the experience for me.
The movie clocks in a bit over an hour and a half, and I honestly would have given this movie permission to stretch to three hours if it meant it could have done better with the resources given to it; I’ll take a numb ass and good storytelling over a rushed “crash boom bang we’re done” action flick.
The best comparison I can give this movie is to a road trip where the radio’s broken; there’s so much chance for this to be awesome but it just was missing that one element that makes or breaks the enjoyment factors.
Oh yeah and another piss off: the Titans aren’t even in this movie, it should have been titled Clash of the Gods or Clash of Olympus or Clash of Men and Gods or Perseus Thinks Hades is a Dick, I dunno but anything would have been more appropriate than Clash of the Titans as a title.
I’m out.
Clash of the Titans… man I was so excited about this movie. Like many, as a kid I was big on the Greek mythology, the stories of The Olympians and such. So as I heard more and more about this movie while it was developing, I was pretty excited; though admittedly when the original trailer’s tagline was “Titans Will Clash” I was concerned, but that got fixed.
Warning now, there will probably be spoilers in this review, you have been warned.
So, Clash of the Titans follows the story of Perseus, one of the first heroes of Greek mythology; son of Zeus, king of the Gods and the mortal wife of his rival… which made me a touch confused as this is well after the tale of the Olympians and the Titans.
The movie opens with a brief exposition of the war of the Olympians and the Titans, the separation of realms between Zeus and his brothers, Poseidon and Hades, Zeus’ deception of Hades and basically paints the Olympians as huge douches.
So, right away we find Perseus as an infant found by a fisherman, a quick flash forward to him as a child being told by his adopted father that he is loved, then another jump forward of Perseus as a young man and Hades offs his family, so naturally he wants revenge.
Perseus is played by Sam Worthington, who I feel has been rolling with some very positive momentum in his roles from Terminator Salvation and Avatar. He’s found a comfortable niche for himself as the John Everyman hero/sympathetic badass, and that skill set carries over into Perseus.
So, like most of Sam Worthington’s characters, he has lost everything and is a man broken and hollow but somehow manages to score this ridiculously awesome opportunity to make something of himself. In this case he is taken in by the soldiers in the city of Argos and is brought before the royal family; the royal family has declared war on the Olympians.
This is where the story starts to fall to crap.
We’re never really given a clear exposition on why the royal family has declared war on Zeus and the gods. The movie hints about how rough times are as the fish aren’t biting and the poor are miserable, but the royal family clearly lives an exceedingly luxurious life so these hardships are irrelevant to them. They also state arrogant reasonings for declaring war, but this also seems weak as, really, if you think you’re better than someone, usually you’ll just go do your own thing; if I think I’m better at something than someone else, I’ll just go my own way, I’m not going to declare bloody war on that person.
From there on the story becomes a rushed clusterbomb of elements borrowed from other epics, primarily Star Wars; if you go see this movie keep a conscious eye out for Star Wars similarities, it’s quite frightening.
All I can say about the story is, that it does maintain accuracy to the tales of Perseus for the most part, but it feel so very very rushed that you can feel that something is just lacking that you can’t put your finger on.
I don’t want to sound like one of the thousands of internet reviewers who think everything sucks, (if you want to be entertained by someone who thinks everything sucks then you would go watch Angry Video Game Nerd, Nostalgia Critic or The Spoony One; I am not at the comedic caliber of those gentlemen) but I just couldn’t get fully immersed in this movie and I wish I could have.
Visually this movie is incredible. The vision of this universe of Greek mythos is fantastic and stunning to behold. The CGI is top notch as mythological characters and beats are brought startlingly to life.
The cast is terrific, Liam Neeson portrays an nontraditional but still marvelous depiction of Zeus, Ralph Fiennes steals the show as Hades, and Sam Worthington nails the role as the movie’s hero.
Dynamic elements in the movie are also great. The comic relief is done very sparingly, and when done it’s normally very subtle so it does provide that moment of brevity but doesn’t compromise the gravity of the story. A very clever homage to the original movie also makes a very brief appearance, you will chuckle when you see it.
The soundtrack was well done, it wasn’t comprised of memorable orchestrals that will stick in your head, but it was tasteful and suited the movie.
The only weakness of this movie was a grave weakness; and that was character development and exposition. There was hardy any time put into the characters to make you care about them and what might happen to them. For example, the character of princess Andromeda is portrayed as this compassionate young woman who feels the plight of the poor, but never once is it explained why this girl who has had a sheltered and privileged life would have such a soft spot for the lower classes of people that she’s been clearly segregated from. Also in the Greek mythos, Andromeda and Perseus wed, but at the end of this movie the female leads have been so poorly developed that you’re not entirely sure who Perseus has wound up with, Andromeda or the mysterious character Io, who served as a half romantic interest for the majority of the movie but dies; the movie does show some chemistry between Andromeda and Perseus, but it’s never once explained, they haven’t had any interactions to fall in love with one another. It’s just poorly led.
Likewise the supporting cast of soldiers and such that aid Perseus, when the predictable demises of some of them happen, the viewer feels nothing because there’s been no connection made with these characters. I felt more connection with the CGI wooden man who mumbled in an ancient unknown language than the human beings I was watching brave this harrowing adventure.
Places and legendary beasts are thoroughly explained, the exposition here is wonderful, and likewise the exposition of the Titans and the Olympians at the start of the movie is well done. The betrayal of Zeus by Hades is well explained and you can appreciate the motives behind it; actually it’s covered so well that I actually kind of felt sympathy for Hades, who was supposed to be this abhorrently terrible villain, but dude got screwed over by Zeus.
So much exposition was put into these little segments of the movie, but the larger parts were left kind of like “it’s there, just go with it”.
Possibly the worst character development (not that there were many comparisons in this movie) was this character of a prophet. He declares his bizarre thoughts as being for the benefit of mankind, and though it’s an undesirable route, his intentions are clearly to save mankind; but then at the end of the movie, as Perseus arrives to save the day, he tries to kill Perseus. He went from trying to save mankind to trying to kill their hero; it felt like the movie suddenly was like “oh crap, we need more villains to round this movie out… umm… make the crazy prophet evil, don’t explain why just do it”.
The storytelling and character development just feels lazy, and the one element that is thoroughly hyped is this unavoidable final confrontation of Perseus against Hades and the Kraken.
But once it finally comes it’s over in like, 45 seconds… seriously it was as disappointing as the final battle in Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen.
I wanted to enjoy this movie, I really did. I fought so hard not to sound like all those other online reviewers who hate everything, and I began to fight to find things I enjoyed about this movie and convince myself I wasn’t feeling bored. If I need to fight t
o enjoy a movie, that’s a problem.
I don’t want to say this is a bad movie, because it had so much potential to be awesome and had every element to become 2010’s first true epic, but stale characters and lazy storytelling ruined the experience for me.
The movie clocks in a bit over an hour and a half, and I honestly would have given this movie permission to stretch to three hours if it meant it could have done better with the resources given to it; I’ll take a numb ass and good storytelling over a rushed “crash boom bang we’re done” action flick.
The best comparison I can give this movie is to a road trip where the radio’s broken; there’s so much chance for this to be awesome but it just was missing that one element that makes or breaks the enjoyment factors.
Oh yeah and another piss off: the Titans aren’t even in this movie, it should have been titled Clash of the Gods or Clash of Olympus or Clash of Men and Gods or Perseus Thinks Hades is a Dick, I dunno but anything would have been more appropriate than Clash of the Titans as a title.
I’m out.
Clash of the Titans… man I was so excited about this movie. Like many, as a kid I was big on the Greek mythology, the stories of The Olympians and such. So as I heard more and more about this movie while it was developing, I was pretty excited; though admittedly when the original trailer’s tagline was “Titans Will Clash” I was concerned, but that got fixed.
Warning now, there will probably be spoilers in this review, you have been warned.
So, Clash of the Titans follows the story of Perseus, one of the first heroes of Greek mythology; son of Zeus, king of the Gods and the mortal wife of his rival… which made me a touch confused as this is well after the tale of the Olympians and the Titans.
The movie opens with a brief exposition of the war of the Olympians and the Titans, the separation of realms between Zeus and his brothers, Poseidon and Hades, Zeus’ deception of Hades and basically paints the Olympians as huge douches.
So, right away we find Perseus as an infant found by a fisherman, a quick flash forward to him as a child being told by his adopted father that he is loved, then another jump forward of Perseus as a young man and Hades offs his family, so naturally he wants revenge.
Perseus is played by Sam Worthington, who I feel has been rolling with some very positive momentum in his roles from Terminator Salvation and Avatar. He’s found a comfortable niche for himself as the John Everyman hero/sympathetic badass, and that skill set carries over into Perseus.
So, like most of Sam Worthington’s characters, he has lost everything and is a man broken and hollow but somehow manages to score this ridiculously awesome opportunity to make something of himself. In this case he is taken in by the soldiers in the city of Argos and is brought before the royal family; the royal family has declared war on the Olympians.
This is where the story starts to fall to crap.
We’re never really given a clear exposition on why the royal family has declared war on Zeus and the gods. The movie hints about how rough times are as the fish aren’t biting and the poor are miserable, but the royal family clearly lives an exceedingly luxurious life so these hardships are irrelevant to them. They also state arrogant reasonings for declaring war, but this also seems weak as, really, if you think you’re better than someone, usually you’ll just go do your own thing; if I think I’m better at something than someone else, I’ll just go my own way, I’m not going to declare bloody war on that person.
From there on the story becomes a rushed clusterbomb of elements borrowed from other epics, primarily Star Wars; if you go see this movie keep a conscious eye out for Star Wars similarities, it’s quite frightening.
All I can say about the story is, that it does maintain accuracy to the tales of Perseus for the most part, but it feel so very very rushed that you can feel that something is just lacking that you can’t put your finger on.
I don’t want to sound like one of the thousands of internet reviewers who think everything sucks, (if you want to be entertained by someone who thinks everything sucks then you would go watch Angry Video Game Nerd, Nostalgia Critic or The Spoony One; I am not at the comedic caliber of those gentlemen) but I just couldn’t get fully immersed in this movie and I wish I could have.
Visually this movie is incredible. The vision of this universe of Greek mythos is fantastic and stunning to behold. The CGI is top notch as mythological characters and beats are brought startlingly to life.
The cast is terrific, Liam Neeson portrays an nontraditional but still marvelous depiction of Zeus, Ralph Fiennes steals the show as Hades, and Sam Worthington nails the role as the movie’s hero.
Dynamic elements in the movie are also great. The comic relief is done very sparingly, and when done it’s normally very subtle so it does provide that moment of brevity but doesn’t compromise the gravity of the story. A very clever homage to the original movie also makes a very brief appearance, you will chuckle when you see it.
The soundtrack was well done, it wasn’t comprised of memorable orchestrals that will stick in your head, but it was tasteful and suited the movie.
The only weakness of this movie was a grave weakness; and that was character development and exposition. There was hardy any time put into the characters to make you care about them and what might happen to them. For example, the character of princess Andromeda is portrayed as this compassionate young woman who feels the plight of the poor, but never once is it explained why this girl who has had a sheltered and privileged life would have such a soft spot for the lower classes of people that she’s been clearly segregated from. Also in the Greek mythos, Andromeda and Perseus wed, but at the end of this movie the female leads have been so poorly developed that you’re not entirely sure who Perseus has wound up with, Andromeda or the mysterious character Io, who served as a half romantic interest for the majority of the movie but dies; the movie does show some chemistry between Andromeda and Perseus, but it’s never once explained, they haven’t had any interactions to fall in love with one another. It’s just poorly led.
Likewise the supporting cast of soldiers and such that aid Perseus, when the predictable demises of some of them happen, the viewer feels nothing because there’s been no connection made with these characters. I felt more connection with the CGI wooden man who mumbled in an ancient unknown language than the human beings I was watching brave this harrowing adventure.
Places and legendary beasts are thoroughly explained, the exposition here is wonderful, and likewise the exposition of the Titans and the Olympians at the start of the movie is well done. The betrayal of Zeus by Hades is well explained and you can appreciate the motives behind it; actually it’s covered so well that I actually kind of felt sympathy for Hades, who was supposed to be this abhorrently terrible villain, but dude got screwed over by Zeus.
So much exposition was put into these little segments of the movie, but the larger parts were left kind of like “it’s there, just go with it”.
Possibly the worst character development (not that there were many comparisons in this movie) was this character of a prophet. He declares his bizarre thoughts as being for the benefit of mankind, and though it’s an undesirable route, his intentions are clearly to save mankind; but then at the end of the movie, as Perseus arrives to save the day, he tries to kill Perseus. He went from trying to save mankind to trying to kill their hero; it felt like the movie suddenly was like “oh crap, we need more villains to round this movie out… umm… make the crazy prophet evil, don’t explain why just do it”.
The storytelling and character development just feels lazy, and the one element that is thoroughly hyped is this unavoidable final confrontation of Perseus against Hades and the Kraken.
But once it finally comes it’s over in like, 45 seconds… seriously it was as disappointing as the final battle in Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen.
I wanted to enjoy this movie, I really did. I fought so hard not to sound like all those other online reviewers who hate everything, and I began to fight to find things I enjoyed about this movie and convince myself I wasn’t feeling bored. If I need to fight
to enjoy a movie, that’s a problem.
I don’t want to say this is a bad movie, because it had so much potential to be awesome and had every element to become 2010’s first true epic, but stale characters and lazy storytelling ruined the experience for me.
The movie clocks in a bit over an hour and a half, and I honestly would have given this movie permission to stretch to three hours if it meant it could have done better with the resources given to it; I’ll take a numb ass and good storytelling over a rushed “crash boom bang we’re done” action flick.
The best comparison I can give this movie is to a road trip where the radio’s broken; there’s so much chance for this to be awesome but it just was missing that one element that makes or breaks the enjoyment factors.
Oh yeah and another piss off: the Titans aren’t even in this movie, it should have been titled Clash of the Gods or Clash of Olympus or Clash of Men and Gods or Perseus Thinks Hades is a Dick, I dunno but anything would have been more appropriate than Clash of the Titans as a title.
