It's Only Getting a 2 Cuz My Personality is too Nice to Give it a 1

Rating: 2/10 (9 May 2010)

Terrible film. Waste of my time. Pathetic excuse for cinema. I must say the trailer intrigued me. Whereas most people seem to be against remaking films, I actually enjoy seeing remakes and adaptations. I think it's a cool idea. But, this film did a terrible job of adapting. Right from the beginning the whole movie seemed rushed. Not to mention they try to explain way too much. Right from the beginning, a female voice explains exactly what you are about to see. And throughout the movie, the characters are so obvious in explaining what will happen in the future events of the plot it seems like a down syndrome patient wrote the dialogue. Persiuss' guardian angel explains what he needs to do the entire time. Everyone likes seeing it when the protagonist solves the riddle by dilligence and investigation, not being guided by somebody. I don't care if he's a demi-god, he seems too catered too throughout the plot. Take for instance in the end when the Kraken is about to munch that girl. All he does is show it Medusa's face and it turns to stone (a suggestion that his guardian angel gave him way earlier in the plot so we knew it was gonna happen). There's no conflict, he doesn't struggle against the climactic enemy. The characters are so surfaced that we wanna call the characters by their real-life names rather than their characters names. The special effects looked like sci-fi's low-budget films and the humor was so not funny it was actually sad. Halfway through my friend and I considered walking out but were so anxious to see the kraken scene which turned out to be a whopping two minutes. All in all the movie seemed like an excuse to destroy a couple buildings, remake a movie, and put Sam Worthington in a skirt. Whatever happened to the witch's prophecy that he was gonna die. That mighta made the movie worth seeing. . . if he died at the beginning.