A shallow action film with an uninspired storyline

Rating: 4/10 (15 April 2010)

This film was really an uninspired one, considering its potential, since Greek mythology may always provide the basis for great stories. When I saw the first film (but that was several years ago), I thought mythology was indeed used in an interesting way. In fact, it was only the original film that made this movie sound so promising to me. But it ended up being a betrayal of the source material and full of terrible mistakes regarding mythology. They tried to compensate for this shallow aspect of the script by adding as many aimless action scenes as they could, and this is not how I define a good movie. But if you don't know the original, nor mythology, and if you are not too demanding, you may be less underwhelmed than I have been. And there is one redeeming quality to this silly movie: the Kraken scene, which was at least beautifully shot and showed a very convincing Kraken. I didn't see it in 3D because it had never been intended for 3D in the first place, and the 3D seemed badly rendered anyway.