What did they do to Beowulf?

Rating: Null/10 (7 June 2002)

It wasn't a terrible movie all in all, but it really lost a lot of the anglo-saxon Beowulf in the process. Granted, most of this comes from Crichton's reinterpretation, and screenwriters - but all the fun stuff from the epic poem poem has been discarded in favor of "realism." Gone are the superhuman feats of endurance, the battle against Grendel, and the interminable quest to find and defeat Grendel's mother. If you want to see a watchable film pre-Norman invasion germanic adventure, this is probably a good movie for you, but if you're looking for a faithful treatment of the the original stories, go elsewhere.