Great action and effects......terrible and cringe worthy acting!

Rating: 5/10 (18 October 2010)

The whole look of the film is really good, the amazing CGI and the action was all there. But what was lacking was the believable and emotive characters who we had to watch for an hour and a half. Sam Worthington played this bitter, hard hearted demi God but Sam did not portray his character well, he seemed more like a rebellious and grumpy kid more than a genuine broken man. If this film was in the hands of someone like Peter Jackson this film could have been the next "Lord of the Rings" as he would have had taken the time to understand the characters and create a strong plot narrative. But instead some lousy director came along and said forget about the quality of the acting, lets go all out with the CGI effects. Also the silly things is that the accents varied when its meant to be set in Greece: Sam spoke in an Australian accent, Liam Neeson in British and i'm sure there were some USA accents in there which was a stupid mistake to make. But, despite the cringe worthy aspect of the whole film i have to applaud the fact it had no rude or offencive scenes plus there is not foul language of any sort so i guess the fact it was a clean film helped gain 5 stars instead of 4. A great concept which was totally messes up. I wonder what they are going to do with the second one....