Product: Beowulf (1999)
Rating: 2.0
How to waste a 1st class actor in a 3rd class movie
This movie promises a lot - a story arround a classic legend, one of the best actors up to date and a nice fantasy flair. What you get is different. The fact that the creators of the Mortal Kombat Movie did this picture says already a lot. What you get is a superficial techno fantasy movie with a silly story, boring acting, trashy tekkno music, cheap special effects and Christopher Lambert, yet in one of his worst roles cause the plot doesn't give him any chance to show up his great acting abilities or even just his charme (in beowulf everything he says sounds boring and that's not his fault, it's cause the dialogues are very flat). All that makes you feel like watching a mix of that hercules tv series and the mortal kombat movies. There is no point in wasting money on that one. Those who like simple entertainment should better watch Hercules or Xena on TV for free and Lambert adorers can save their money here and buy the great new "Ressurection" where you get that great acting again that made him so famous. You may noticed that i gave 2 stars still - well, Lamberts appearance is at least worth one even though he could do a lot better and the second star is for the dvd menue & extras - they did better work on that as on the whole movie.