A Baffling Experience

Rating: 3/10 (3 April 2010)

I went to see Clash of the Titans last Friday - the day it came out in Britain, the cinema was not even half full, which was extremely odd for a brand new movie on release day.
The first quarter of this movie was story-telling. Story-telling that we have all heard before in school; Zeus created man, Zeus sent Hades to the Underworld, The birth of Perseus, etc.
The rest of the movie was just.... Fighting. They go out into the woods, there's a fight. They go into the desert, there's a fight. It seemed that the heroes cannot go 2 metres without some generic-evil- device trying to squash them.
The acting in this movie was mediocre at best. Many characters were developed reasonably well but were disposed at the drop of a hat. Sam Worthington's performance has all the same flaws it had in Avatar. The best acting was from Ralph Fiennes (Hades) and Liam Neeson (Zeus) whose brother-on-brother-conflict relationship was far more interesting than Perseus going around brawling with anything that moves.
Negativities aside, the CGI was decent but not incredible, and the 3D was also good. One thing that needs to be mentioned is that the CG on the Scorpions, Kraken and Pegasus was good, but Medusa looked terrible.
To conclude this, Clash of the Titans is not a movie that will leave much of an impact, Greek Mythology Nerds might find something to like here, but most of us will be left in the dark, scratching our heads and trying to count the infinite number of fight scenes