..by the French director Louis Leterrier is a grandious story about the struggle between men and gods.
The clash between the immortals and the mortals take place in the city of Argos, a famous Greek city in which the king thought he had beaten the gods when crushing the statue of Zeus.
Sam Worthington (an actor we've seen in Avatar among other films) plays the semi-god Perseus (the founder of Mycenae and the Perseid dynasty) whos earthly parents are killed by Hades.
He's not aware of that he is the son of Zeus when the latter in one of his seductive moods, disguised as the husband of the woman he makes love to, becomes the father of their son, that is to say Perseus.
The biological and mortal mother of Perseus and Perseus himself are thrown into the sea by the husband who regard this seductive move from Zeus being something shameful.
Perseus survives and gradually he becomes aware of his origin and destiny: As the semi-god he is, he has to defend the city of Argos against Hades and his Kraken monster.
The story blends different more or less accurate stories about the ancient Greeks and their gods, displayed against a fantastic background of fearless warriors and giant monsters, including the Medusa.
The clash between the immortals and the mortals take place in the city of Argos, a famous Greek city in which the king thought he had beaten the gods when crushing the statue of Zeus.
Sam Worthington (an actor we've seen in Avatar among other films) plays the semi-god Perseus (the founder of Mycenae and the Perseid dynasty) whos earthly parents are killed by Hades.
He's not aware of that he is the son of Zeus when the latter in one of his seductive moods, disguised as the husband of the woman he makes love to, becomes the father of their son, that is to say Perseus.
The biological and mortal mother of Perseus and Perseus himself are thrown into the sea by the husband who regard this seductive move from Zeus being something shameful.
Perseus survives and gradually he becomes aware of his origin and destiny: As the semi-god he is, he has to defend the city of Argos against Hades and his Kraken monster.
The story blends different more or less accurate stories about the ancient Greeks and their gods, displayed against a fantastic background of fearless warriors and giant monsters, including the Medusa.
This film is a remake of an older version from 1981 (director Desmond Davies), a film Aurore has seen and found more charming even if this one is full of special effects and different kinds of more or less interesting scenery.We agreed on that it was a well produced film but it was very much of a 'video game-aesthetical' execution and this was really a minus. Unfortunately it has been very common with this kind of aesthetics the last ten years in order to be able to release the film in that very form when it's not running in the movie theaters, and hereby earn more money.
We saw Liam Neeson in the role as Zeus and Ralp Fiennes as Hades and these two actors I sometimes mix up, wherefore it was a good stroke, in my view, letting them become brothers.
In the role as Draco we saw Mads Mikkelsen.
(Photo statue of Perseus copied from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus)
We saw Liam Neeson in the role as Zeus and Ralp Fiennes as Hades and these two actors I sometimes mix up, wherefore it was a good stroke, in my view, letting them become brothers.
In the role as Draco we saw Mads Mikkelsen.
(Photo statue of Perseus copied from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus)
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