Gods of Egypt Reviews

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An average movie

Posted : 7 years, 7 months ago on 31 August 2016 07:31

Even though this movie was a huge commercial and critical failure, I have to admit that it used to be one of my highest priorities for 2016. Indeed, I always had a weak spot for Alex Proyas’s work (‘Dar City’ is especially one of my all-time favorite movies) and, after 7 long years, the guy was finally coming up with something new so I had some rather high expectations. Unfortunately, I have to agree, this movie turned out be indeed a massive disappointment. I mean, the whole thing looked really neat but, unfortunately, pretty much nothing else really worked in this movie. First of all, this movie received some big criticism for whitewashing the characters but I don’t really believe in this argument. Indeed, in my opinion, it is really naive to think that they could release such a blockbuster with some unknown Egyptian or Arab actors. So, even though the ethnicity of the actors was not really the issue here, it doesn’t change the fact that the cast was actually rather weak. Indeed, in my opinion, Chadwick Boseman was the only one who managed to do something interesting with his character. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Geoffrey Rush were not bad but also not really amazing either. Brenton Thwaites and Courtney Eaton were both really bland and boring and, for Courtney Eaton, her ever-present cleavage obviously helped by a push up bra was really distracting and not really period accurate. Concerning Elodie Yung, she looked nice but they should have chosen a much more gorgeous woman to play the goddess of love, like Bar Refaeli for example or, even if they wanted someone more exotic looking, Adriana Lima or Irina Shayk. Eventually, the most disappointing actor was probably Gerard Butler though. Indeed, while watching this flick, it was hard to believe that it was the same actor who, 10 years ago, kicked some major-ass as Leonidas. Indeed in ‘300’, he carried the whole thing on his shoulder, showing some major charisma and leadership but, in this movie, I never believed I was watching some actual god with some mighty power. Aside from the cast, the story was also really weak. I mean, the whole thing about the prince who needs to fight against his uncle to get back his throne has been done to death by now and usually way better than in this movie. To conclude, even though the whole thing really had some potential, it turned to be really weak and I don’t think it is worth a look.

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Gods of Egypt review

Posted : 7 years, 11 months ago on 22 May 2016 10:36

I agree that Hollywood needs to listen to the crowds when they only want people to be portrayed by actual people from the country involved. On the other hand it kind of makes sense that they don't do it when it comes to making money and getting an audience. It's not like this movie is only white people though. The cast has a wider variety than say Exodus with Christian Bale. Anyways let's move on. Wait this is directed by the same guy who did The Crow? That for me is definitely a plus. The writer duo (Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless) are responsible for creating The Last Witch Hunter as well as Dracula Untold. So the gods here are like giants. It looks kind of cheesy when they do it like that. Well this is definitely a colorful and extravagant looking film. That dress is very pleasant on the eyes. Oh man I had no idea that was coming. I actually didn't know much about what was going on before watching this. It's interesting to see Nikolaj Coster-Waldau playing the good guy while Gerard Butler plays the villain. That was brutal! It kind of reminds of Prince of Egypt with the time jump. Man he has to be one lucky son of a gun to survive all of that. So them changing into creatures looks great, but when they are riding a carriage it looks like movies from back in the day where they weren't really driving. Damn that was unexpected. Ah okay so that's how it all comes together then. So I know this is fiction and all, but there really is no way he could have survived that. That's a pretty simplistic looking place of creation. Wow are they really doing the whole Earth is flat scenario? Lol that line made me think of Star Wars. It looks like the CGI is back to being good again. Let's see how long that lasts. I guess having gold blood makes it a little less graphic. You know I can't get past how much Horus is basically Jaime Lannister as a God. Oh wow lol. Ah typical villain move there. Giant fire-breathing snakes nice! The silly thing is that they are kind of racial. Okay that was a pretty badass death scene. Bek is having way too many close calls where he should have definitely been dead. That is a lot of Chadwick Bosemans. He is very right about Bek's reliance on chance. Maybe you should think more considering who you are. Aw man not cool! That was kind of bittersweet. Well I don't see how it's possible to do anything but lose now. He is definitely on a power trip and quite psychotic. That was kind of amusing. The ending was rather predictable. It's not really all that bad if you get past that pretty much no one is Egyptian. The acting is pretty good. I liked the characters. The storyline was okay nothing particularly amazing. I probably wouldn't watch this again though.

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Gods of Egypt review

Posted : 8 years, 12 months ago on 29 April 2015 09:01

No shaved heads? Bearded egyptian gods? Danish and british? Only Rufus Sewell have the looks. I'm hating it already. Oh no, but when it's about terrorists then you want the looks.
F.U. Hollywood

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