INTRODUCTION
This movie deserves a bigger poster shot, cause it is supposed to be whats so cool about this show. Unfortunately despite having so many different posters, this show really just emphasizes on about 2 of them majorly, with one particular character having a abyssmally small role despite being so prominent in the poster. Just take a look amongst this 8 posters and guess who is that pitiful actor and character. The answer will be revealed at the bottom of this posting.
Anyway, tauted to be the next blockbuster action movie, especially with the statement at the top, the producers of 300. If you seen 300, you probably already have the inkling that you must see this show.
This show follows the story of the hunt of a particular bow that is able to release the titans from their prison. So the main character and his oracle and a few friends set off to try to get the bow. There are also the gods in these show and if you do not know which ones in particular, they are Posidon, Athena, Zeus and Ares. Can you spot them in the poster above? So these Gods do not want to interfere in the business of man, and Zeus makes this statement that they can only interfere if the Titans are released. Thankfully, for us, they do get released at one point of the show, but continue to read on to see if it lived up to expectations or at least my expectations.
Storyline
Lets be honest, in an action film, all you should really expecting is a storyline that gives you tons and tons of action. This movie doesn't do it all too badly, although the storyline is still pretty standard fare. To be honest though, i felt that this movie, which is already long, tried to put too much storyline into the movie depriving us of time for more and more action. I guess at some point of time there is some tradeoff to be made but honestly. for a action show with this much potential, there should have been a bit more emphasis on action.
There are also some strange incidences in the show that do not make particular sense to me, like the action of a particular monk that i shall not spoil for those seeing the show. Overall, since this show follows some mythology, it does above average for an action flick and that is just enough for this genre. This show also had quite a few funny moments as well as gory moments which added to the entertainment value of the movie.
Character
Well, unfortunately, like many action movies, this show might have highlighted too many seemingly "starring" characters then it could chew. Like i said in the introduction, some characters are so hardly elaborated that I actually pitied one of the actors in those posters above. I mean it seems like he was gonna be important and yet he has horrible screen time. Further more, some of the characters that followed the main character were actually very unimpressive and not distinct enough if you ask me. It reaches the stage whereby you actually have no clue which one of them was actually killed because they are so close together in character and role and they even look kinda alike. This is also the same case for two particular gods also.
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| The front two is different, but the next two are pratically twins |
On the bright side, at least they did have visible attempts at trying to distinguish some other characters at least via weapon choice and costume.
Cinematography
This is the portion whereby the show really shined. Similar to the movie 300, this show placed a lot of focus on trying to depict magnitude, beauty and take very good shots of places. The action sequences was also pretty well filmed with the typical 300 effects to bring out the impact of the action.
You might find yourself saying wow this place looks cool, or this place looks nice when you see some of the shots they used. There are also some perspective shots that adds some entertainment value to the show.
Music
Music was also above average and added much thrill and value to the battle scenes. Nothing particularly too outstanding as this is no musical and there was not much singing to be expected.
Spectacle
For an action movie with a mythical storyline, this show did pretty well. Its no 300 in terms of action, because i personally felt that there were a bit too little large scale fightings and there was more focus on individual 1 v 1 or 1 v 2 or 1 v 5 that kinda fights. I also like the idea that the show admitted the vulnerability of the gods especially when they are fighting the Titans that according to mythology, did actually put up a fight. So its less of a hero story and rather more of looking at everything in a collective sense.
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| This, it had too little of |
Sadly, I still personally felt that there was too much potential that could have been used in enhancing the action scenes and personalizing the battles better and this is probably where the movie fell a bit short from the action genre.
Overall
Storyline : 4 (Coherent storyline expected of the action genre. It could always be better but if you have to sacrifice action for storyline, i rather you keep the action and scrimp on story)
Character : 3.5 (Many characters, supposed to be unique but they could have done a better job differentiating them. Too many short roles for supposed important characters)
Cinematography : 4.5 (Where the movie shines. I would say its still not the 300 level but its pretty close)
Music : 3.5 (Above average and added to value of entertainment)
Spectacle : 4 (Action genre that had good action while it lasted, but perhaps was just a bit too short)
Overall : 3.9 (Action genre lovers, this show can still work for you as long as you don't set your bar at the level of 300 and love to see cgi effects and more personal scale battles then large scale Lord of the Rings army battles. Other genre fans that just want to have a nice day off enjoying the progress of technology and CGI could possibly enjoy this show as long as they have realistic expectations of a action flick. That is to mean, if you want to enjoy this action flick, go in expecting to just see action and don't say its bad cause it didn't have romance or storyline or what not.)
So there goes another blockbuster for the year, it was a entertaining experience for me, but I just felt a bit wasted that they didn't utilize the gods as much as they could.
A bonus clue for those who are still thinking who is the pitiful actor, it seems like this actor got the worse part, and also the most retarded costume. Its like those kinda costume that you are made to wear cause you lost a bet or the drawing of straws.
You could put down your guess in the comments, or just comment in general :D
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