A supposedly great epic poem, becomes a juvenile cartoon

Rating: 6/10 (2 March 2008)

Many years ago, I tried to read Beowulf, but had to give up on it because I had trouble understanding the 'olde' English prose it was in. I had troubles with Chaucer for same reason.
Now the film I saw on DVD last night,I doubt it had much to do with the epic poem. This was more like a comic strip gone wild.
Ray Winstone was good in the lead, as well as all the other well known actors,if you were able to make out who was who, (too many fat suits & bushy beards & makeup for me.
Angelina Jolie is a beauty but was not believable, in her performance.
Most of the blame goes to the director, who has made very few decent films, that I actually enjoyed. (his'Back to the Future'series was overly loud & excessively unfunny--he also made the atrocious all-star western {I forgot title},which was nothing but violence added on top of more violence.)
He does the same thing here
I have no objection to violence in films. ( 300---Kill Bill & Grindhouse were excellently made, the violence was natural & normal for its stories. Here it was violence for the sake of more violence.
& it became a big bore.
ratings **1/2 (out of 4) 68 points (out of 100) IMDb 6 (out of 10)