An assembly of poor writing, directing and fightin

Not every film remake is bad but certain ones are, such as 'Godzilla', 'Wild Target' and 'The Woman In Black', this joins the chain of unwanted remakes, being an assembly of poor writing, direction and fighting!

'Clash of the Titans' is one of those fantasy films that you like to admire the art direction for! The sets are well designed and actually you also get a good performance from Gemma Arterton!

But what a poor script! The plot of this film is dull, stupid and makes little sense! Thank god it only lasts 96 minutes! 96 dull minutes! It seems incredibly similar to the 'Lord of the Rings' films, particularly the lava scene fight near the end, which seems like a copy of Gollum (Andy Serkis)'s death in 'The Return of the King'. The fight scenes are over-long and really dull! And in some cases, I feel like I'm watching some spoof or poor remake of 'Lord of the Rings'. Yes this is a remake of the 1981 film 'Clash of the Titans' but it seems like 'Lord of the Rings' as well!

The film is also poorly directed! Louis Leterrier is probably completely uninterested in how to direct crap like this! Thank god for that! Most of the acting is pretty bland, but Ralph Fiennes is utterly over the top! Just when I thought 'The Avengers' would be his only bad performance, along comes this! Hiring Fiennes was a waste of money too, since it's pretty hard to recognise him, even if he does use the same voice as he does for Lord Voldemort in 'Harry Potter', it's hard to recognise him in 'Harry Potter' but at least he's good in those films!

The visual effects look pretty ugly! At least they bloody know how to do visual effects, but they look awful here! Particularly the whole concept of a hand being cut off and then turning into some sort of flesh spider!

Perhaps the critical acclaim of remakes/reboots like 'The Dark Knight' and 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' offered some hope for 'Clash of the Titans' to be a good remake! It really failed to give hope! It gets a high 3/10 but isn't any better than the 1998 remake of 'Godzilla'

3/10