dated and underwhelming cgi

Rating: 3/10 (1 December 2007)

this is the year 2007 and yet the cgi in this film looks about ten years old, the character movements are stilted, the eyes have no expression in them, how come they can get it right in the kids cgi films that pixar do, and the great achievements of the Rings movies and King Kong, about more than half the cgi in here is pretty bad, if it were not for the 3d which mostly works i would have walked out halfway thru, the other major flaw in the film is the dreadful voice of ray winstone, who knows what accent he was going for at times he sounded like a bad peter o'toole and an even worse richard burton, and worst of all he did his trademark shouting every sentence, the best thing was the creation of grendel's mother the animation almost did justice to the beauty of angelina jollie and her voice was perfect, it goes without saying that the script was truly appalling even by comic book standards, all in all a pretty bad movie i cannot believe its rating is as high as it is, it should not be more than a 3