INTRODUCTION
Titans! Wrath! with words like this, everyone would be expecting an epic show of epic proportions filled with fighting, killing and lots of blood and gore! And I can't blame you for expecting this especially considering what the trailers show us about this show. For the uninformed the link to the trailer is here
And this is the poster right here
Epic right? Will be expecting to see lotsa of monsters and humans killing them, and to see the titans come out and trash things out with the Greek gods!
However.. the sad thing about this is, unlike the poster below, we will not get a chance to see the hero of this show pierce that double headed beast with a spear. Nope.. the movie actually plays out differently from that. Another sad part is that.. this show probably belongs to the kind of show where the trailer has actually shown everything there is to show about the movie. I will continue to elaborate on this below...
Storyline
Storyline is not entirely new, its quite similar in concept to the previous greek based movie immortals. Only difference is in this movie, instead of seeing zeus and a few other greek Gods in action, this show is more based on Hades, Zeus, Posidon, their children and a little bit of Chronos. It follows the perspective of Perseus and has cameo from his horsie Pegasus and a few other minor characters.
There are some differences though as this story is based on the release of Chronos by effort from Hades and Ares with Perseus being the unwilling hero of the story. Hence we do get to see a bit more of interaction particularly from Hades and Zeus as compared to the other movies, with this movie portraying them as more humanlike.
Unfortunately, besides that, the whole story follows the same plot style with many movies ending with Perseus becoming powered up in the end and ending the usual way that I shall not describe to not spoil the show. However, as you can see from the standard plot lines you could pretty much guess the end.
Character
In this aspect, there is a bit more variety as the show talks not only about one main character but uses some other characters to mix things up a bit. Still, throughout the whole show there is really little the movie did to express the epicness of the main three gods Zeus, Hades and Posidon. As a result, none of them really seem all that powerful which is a waste given the potential of the plot material.
There is also not enough distinction between the other characters of the show and Perseus did have a few human companions that unfortunately were nothing more then monster fodder. The show does try to highlight some father son relationship during the course of the show but somehow overall it seems overly contrived i.e. forced.
Cinematography
There are attempts to highlight certain level of epicness in the battle scenes but these scenes ended pretty short and one sided in general. Hence you don't really feel as if you are in some epic battle with both sides giving it all they got. However, there are scenes that are pretty well done, such as the introduction to the underground labyrinth that was pretty unique. Sadly, besides that, there was nothing else that seemed that unique and well done in general.
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| This, there is too little off... really too little.. i meant the battle scenes. |
Music
Nothing special about the music. But didn't harm the show in any way either.
Spectacle
Ok now this is where the show ratings may split into two directions. The first is that those expecting to see an action packed LOTR lots of people fighting and dying show with large scale strategies and fightings will be sorely disappointed. At best perhaps we could say that this show does a passable job with 1 on 1 fights between the main hero and several monsters. Passable because of the fact that even these fights were really very very very short.
The other way to try to rate it would be saying that this show is meant to focus on the storyline aspect which is a more different from the usual as it talks about how the will to protect one's son will give the father strong determination. Sadly, this wasn't done in any exceptional manner and does nothing to satisfy the action hungry crowd. This problem is further accentuated by the fact that the trailers try to depict this show as an action packed show.
Thus on both accounts, this show struggles to set itself aside from the rest of the movie and doesn't leave much of an impression.
Overall
Storyline : 3 (Too safe, nothing special, really pretty bland which is not what the source material should be)
Character : 3 (There is slightly more emphasis on characters other then the main hero, but still it is nothing good enough to add value to the show)
Cinematography : 3 (There are good scenes, and yet there are really bad scenes so its best to say its right there smack in the middle)
Music : 3 (Nothing good, nothing bad either)
Spectacle : 2 (Its a strange situation to see a movie fail in this. However, it is true that what was expected was not given, and cause the show tried to do too many things at the same time, it ended up biting more then it could chew and did not have the opportunity to really entertain the audience who might have been action lovers or story line lovers.)
Overall : 2.8 (Yep, this show is barely above the passing mark. This is really disappointing given the potential of the source material. But sadly there really was nothing that struck out as awesome or epic. The closest this show actually had was the introduction of the labyrinth but everything else really made this show too bland. The only way to have a chance at enjoying this movie is 1. Forget everything you seen in the trailer [Because the trailer scenes are already the most interesting] 2. Is to have no expectation about the show at all. Only then you might have a chance at saying oh this is an interesting take on the movie.
So to my readers, did i predict wrongly? Comment if you seen the show :)
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