Product: Beowulf (1999)
Rating: 1.0
If there was a C grade Movie, this would be it
This is worse than a B movie. When my fiancée and I rented it, we weren't sure what to expect, but we figured since it has Christopher Lambert, it couldn't be all that bad. We were wrong.There isn't much to this movie, other than bad techno music, a porn star, and a bunch of technology that didn't fit anywhere in history except the late 19th century. The only thing the movie appears to share with the epic Beowulf is the name, and a faint storyline of a half mortal, half god being coming to destroy a creature that's wrecking havoc on a castle.I love Christopher Lambert, but this movie did not do justice to his acting skills. He doesn't have any lines that are worth remembering, the movie doesn't do much to develop his character, and for being half human, half god he's surprisingly vulnerable. There's a short (five minutes or less) amount of time given to why he's half human, half god, and why he's there to defeat the Grendal.The rest of the characters are pretty flat, even Kyra (Rhona Mitra) and Grendal's Mother (Layla Roberts). There isn't anything special about either of the them, and the only thing Layla Roberts brings to the film are a few dream sequences where she gets to act sexy and porn star like, and Rhona Mitra really doesn't add anything.Beowulf really turned out to be a pretty one-dimensional movie, with a lot of bad techno that really didn't fit. Add in one porn star, some technology that's centuries before it's time, lots of people who haven't been in a lot of well known movies, and some sword fighting, and you have a step below B grade movie.