Director's Cut Review

Rating: 4/10 (9 April 2008)

In 507, a monstrous troll wrecks havoc in the mead hall of the Danish king, Hrothgar. He offers rewards for the death of Grendel, so Beowulf, a great and boastful Geet warrior, arrives with his thanes. Beowulf sets aside his armor and awaits the monster; a fierce battle ensues that leads to Beowolf's entering the watery lair of Grendel's mother, where a devil's bargain awaits. Beowulf returns to Herot, the castle, and becomes king. Jump ahead many years, and the sins of the father are visited upon Beowulf and his kingdom. The hero must face his weakness and be heroic once again. Is the age of demons over?
Note: I saw this film on a small TV screen with no 3D glasses. First of all, I did not find this movie exhilarating and fun as many people put it out to be. It's probably because they saw it in a movie theater with 3D glasses! Oh, how I would kill to watch this movie in IMAX 3D! However, I didn't so it didn't really get me.
Second, the story wasn't at all interesting. It's just basically a hero trying to kill monsters. Wow....so exciting. Third, the movie wasn't as entertaining and fun as I thought it would be. The action scene are decent at best. Fourth, this whole motion capture thing is good, but animation still do not look as real as the real thing. In some moments, I believed some things were real while in others, I thought it was complete crappy animation so that kind of took me out of the movie.
Fifth, I've seen so many other movies before this that uses the same action scenes used in this film, like 300 and Alexander. In the end, I thought the film was decent for what it was. I've never read the play or was familiar with anything from Beowulf, but as an outsider, I guess it would be okay to kill 117 minutes...