My Rating: ***1/2 - GoodThe remake of 1981's "Clash of the Titans" has finally arrived. With great special affects as its strongest point, you can obviously tell that it could have been done better. The plot is set in ancient Greek Mythology and a boy named Perseus was found as a baby adrift at sea inside a coffin with his mother. The fisherman who found him raised him along with his wife. It was during a time when mortals were beginning to question the Greek gods and a war is started. One day, Perseus's whole family is killed by Hades for no real reason other than the fact that he was angry. So, Perseus is rescued by soldiers and is taken to the city of Argos where Hades crashes a party and threatens to release the Kraken, a giant sea creature made by Hades's own flesh that was once used to kill the Titans long ago unless they sacrifice Andromeda, princess of Argos. So, Perseus finds out he is the son of Zeus and he and some soldiers from Argos set out on a quest to find the Fates who are supposed to be able to see the future and figure out how to defeat the Kraken before it's too late. This journey has the perfect set-up for some great special affects. Fortunately, it was used perfectly. The special affects were just astounding and I can only imagine how good it is in 3-D. You get to see many things from Greek mythology that are purely made of special affects and it is just pure amazing. The acting in this movie is also good. Sam Worthington(Perseus) as I can already tell is on his way to being a big-time actor. He almost did as good a job in this film as he did with his starring role in "Avatar". The movie is a little slow sometimes though and is just not very interesting. And it's weird because during his quest he has all of these battles that he struggles to win but then towards the end, he seems to take out creatures ten times the size of ones earlier in the film with barely a struggle. But overall, the acting is good, the story is good, the special affects are amazing but sometimes the movie loses it's pace a little and how much you like it is somewhat effected by whether or not you like fantasy/action movies. But I guess I have more of a tolerance for movies like this than most people.
Starring: Sam Worthington Director: Louis Leterrier
Gemma Arterton
Liam Neeson
Ralph Fiennes
Danny Houston
Alexa Davalos
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