very good heartfelt story of man vs himself

Rating: 8/10 (9 January 2010)

I had know idea what to expect when i saw Beowulf because i had missed all the promotional material but boy was i pleasantly surprised. I will not talk about the technical aspects of the movie but what it said to me personally.
Beowulf as a character is arrogant, confident, engaging, commanding, entertaining , enthralling and totally exciting. He believes in his own hype so much that when he tells his fantastic stories you really don't have a choice but to believe him unless you are have already decided to hate him.
One of the two things that resonates with me though is the fact that here is this man who slays monsters and as a result is pretty well known if not a legend, larger than life, more than a man, but he is so easily seduced by the beauty and promises of the very creatures that he has crossed a sea to slay and that has already slain his own men .In this he proves he is just a man.
The second thing would be, after Beowulf has made the deal and recognized that it was a bad choice he is then confronted with the ultimate manifestation of his bad decision. He then acknowledges the true magnitude of his actions and accounts for it by battling the most horrific thing of all, his own demon, literally. Thus, proving that he may be just a man..... but he is also a true hero.