"Crap Movie Alert" or "Perseus is a Terminator-like / ex fisherman / Avenger"

Rating: 3/10 (12 April 2010)

The costume design of the movie is very good. The ancient Greek armors and props actually look Greek and the Greek Warrior characters look "damaged", tired, and original (till they open their mouth and speak ANY line of dialog). The Set design is a good -visually delightful- mix of several civilizations, and even though the locations of the movie do not really look like Greece we let it slide. These are the good elements of the movie.
Other than that... Perseus is a Terminator-like / ex fisherman / Avenger on the war path, who slaughters anything that comes near him, while his comrades "jump into fire" for him with no obvious reason. The Perseus character is as shallow as possible, and the script and dialogs hardly give any chance to the actors in general to actually act. There are nice actors in this movie who unfortunately are helpless in the hands of the merciless scriptwriters who doomed them with silly lines a 5 yo could write.
This is a movie based entirely in action scenes and special effects. Unfortunately, the action scenes and special effects are no better than the dialogs. The Medusa character is hardly movie quality 3d (Many games actually have more realistic graphics these days). The Kraken moved from the coasts of Norway and Iceland to the Ancient Greece, but it still did not do much good as most of the time we were watching Perseus chasing a blurry Harpy instead of fighting that poor monster. The "lightsaber" idea was quite good, as when Perseus was turning on his "lightsaber" I was thinking of Star Wars and the movie was more bearable. I actually thought he was going to use the Force at some scenes of the movie (but never did to my disappointment).
In general, there are countless scenes that I could comment on but there is point in that. The movie is as bad as they can get, regarding script, dialogs, action and special effects. Other than the Art Direction, there is no reason to pay for this 10 euro in a movie theater.
This is a fun movie, but a huge disappointment too
p.s. The "Slutty" Io character was a good twist, and we can understand why Perseus dumps "the love of his life" (according to the myth) Andromeda, to hook up with herNOT