Superb Nietzchean Revision of Beowulf

Rating: 9/10 (27 November 2007)

If you have read the Beowulf, the book Grendel, and some work by Nietzche ,especially, Genelogy of Morality, then this script will surely be of great satisfaction to you. If you are hoping for the uber-Christian hero of the original epic you have come to the wrong movie. The movie alters the elements of the original story, casting all the main characters and events in a light that is not early-Christin propaganda, but instead a decidedly unchristian interpretation.
As to the visual effects, i thought they worked very well sense a CGI creatures in most movies tend to stick out like a sore thumb. With the whole movie as a digital rendering the actors and monsters at least seemed to exist within the same visual field.
I am very surprised that this got a PG-13 rating as it is sexually explicit in many ways and graphically violent in even more. I would certainly not recommend taking younger children to the movie.
In summation this movie was an intelligent action film that had developed and flawed characters, and was not afraid to ridicule itself and its genre from time to time. Ingenuity of Visual Effects, Intelligent Plot, unique adaption, humor, and good pacing made this movie well worth seeing.