Can’t we all just get along? Clash of the Titans is the story of Perseus, a Demigod, who is caught in the middle of a war between the gods; Zeus (Liam Neeson), Hades (Ralph Fiennes) and Poseidon (Danny Hudsen).
Sam Worthington plays Perseus, the unknowing son of Zeus, who is raised by a fisherman named Spyros (Pete Posthlewaite) and his family. The gods are finding that they are losing their power because the mortals aren’t praying to them anymore. So Hades makes a pact with Zeus to let him go down and bring pain and suffering on them so that, in turn, they will be humbled and begin to pray to the gods again. Hades ends up releasing his wrath upon the mortals of Earth and ends up killing Perseus’ family (intentionally or not is a good question to ask). Perseus swears revenge upon the gods for this destruction. “Everyone I loved was killed by the gods!”
Perseus is taken to the city of Argos where the king and queen vow to never pray to the gods again. Hades shows up and announces that the only way to save the city of Argos from destruction and eventually from the underworld monster, the Kraken, is to sacrifice the daughter of the king and queen of Argos.
Perseus bands together with his own “fellowship” to go to the underworld and attempt to destroy Hades. Along the way this “band of brothers” battle each other along with large scorpions, Medusa and eventually the Kraken itself. But don’t get too excited, it seems like it took the Kraken longer to come out of the water than it did to battle him. The scorpion scene and the scene in Medusa’s lair were played out well though. I found those scenes to have a good combination of action and suspense.
I went into this movie with pretty low expectations and found the movie to be better than expected. The acting in the movie is hit and miss. Sam Worthington gives his typical average performance that we’ve seen in a few other movies he’s been in (Terminator Salvation and Avatar). In fact in one point in the movie he is ‘rallying the troops’ and it reminded me of the scene in Avatar where he was pleading with the people of Pandora to stand up and fight for their liberties and freedoms. Ralph Fiennes character of Hades seemed VERY similar to his popular role of Harry Potter’s ‘Voldemort’. Liam Neeson did a good job as Zeus but his glowing and blurry countenance got kind of annoying after awhile.
Probably the biggest disappointment in the movie was the 3D effects. The movie was not filmed originally for 3D but the studio added the 3D afterwards and it’s fairly obvious. There were times where it seemed blurry even with the 3D glasses on. Some of the battle sequences were hard to follow because of the lackluster 3D effects. I would suggest anyone who sees this movie to see it in 2D and save themselves the extra few dollars. In fact I would’ve given this movie 3 out of 4 stars if I would’ve seen it in 2D.
Rating of whether I would see the movie again:
1 = Definitely not!
2 = Probably not.
3 = Maybe.
4 = Probably.
5 = Absolutely!
Would I see the movie again in the theaters? 2
Will I rent it on DVD and watch it at home? 4
Would I buy the movie? 2
(Clash of the Titans is rated PG-13 for fantasy action violence, some frightening images, brief language and brief sensuality.)
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