Shockingly crap

Rating: Null/10 (3 April 2009)

AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID.
I watched this a long time ago. Not even the greatest fans of bad movies can appreciate this. Gone was the lovely flowing rhythm of the poem - gone was any potential message.
Instead, they managed to make you go "PICK ONE. LIVE ACTION OR CGI. PICK ONE." and somehow made Angelina Jolie look unattractive.
It's creepy, but in a Zack Snyder sort of way. AVOID.
It looks like a lot of effort, and it has a good cast billing. And Neil Gaiman helped write it. How they went so wrong I do not know. Even that racist, homophobic idiot Zack Snyder could blame the comic book 300 (although the fact that he made it and made it worse is a stunning accomplishment), the source material for Beowulf was BEOWULF.
Guh. Idiots.