Watch the original

Rating: 4/10 (5 April 2010)

Okay if you are a fan of the mythology of Greece etc Zeus and all that. Don't bother with this version. I am a fan of the original film and quite frankly as camp as it may be now it is still superior to this version. Sam Worthington is so angry all the way through understandable without his avatar.......sorry getting confused it's the haircut. Anyways this is so far from the original that it struggles to be honest, and if you sit and pick apart the problems with the myths and Perseus legends etc you will need a lot of paper. Liam Neeson sort of enjoys himself as Zeus and what actually bugs me is the way that he sends Perseus a sword which only works for him (literally it is a hilt to anybody else) and Perseus wont take it and growls "I do this as a man", yep sorry but if the Gods are trying to help you. Lets face it if somebody sends you a light-sabre (not literally unfortunately) and all you have is a wooden prop sword.... The mythology and the legend is so messed up and the film basically a case of lets throw CGI at this script and make it better by having far superior effects than the original attempt. The majority of the cast are wasted and the fight scenes quite frankly are too long and boring after a while. This film could have been so much more and better. Shame because I was looking forward to it. I have given this a 4 incidentally simply because I am a Liam Neeson fan. Don't expect much from this movie.