Review of Beowulf (2007) by Daniel M — 07 Dec 2012

''Are you the one they call Beowulf? Such a strong man you are. A man like you could own the greatest tale ever sung. Beowulf... Stay with me. Give me a son, and I shall make you the greatest king that ever lived. This... I swear... ''.

The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother begins killing out of revenge...

Ray Winstone: Beowulf.

Robin Wright Penn: Wealthow.

Anthony Hopkins: Hrothgar.

Angelina Jolie: Grendel's Mother.

The animation in this movie is perfect which is a good and a bad thing. Quite easily they could of done it just with normal real time. The realism is definitely spot on but I find the point of animation is to look like animation otherwise if it's too real then you may as well have the real thing.

Beowulf draws on the same lines as 300 and Gladiator. Instead of ''This is Sparta!'' its ''this is beowulf!''. Talk of glory and battle also reminiscent. But now I've got the bad points out the way I can focus on the good points.

I am well versed in Norse mythology and I know the story of Beowulf & Grendel well. This is a glamed up re-telling that does it's job.

The voice overs are perfect, the visual characters captured to a tee. Acting is above par, it's so damn real the actors actually can give performances.

Brendan Gleeson, Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone, John Malkovich, Angelina Jolie all add their talents to this masterpiece of sorts. As do all the other cast members.

Some nicely executed horror parts such as Grendel terrorizing the hall or the monstrous dragon breathing fiery flames upon a unsuspecting kingdom.

If you love fantasy, mythology or even imaginative animated films Beowulf is not to be missed.

A triumph again from Robert Zemeckis.

''The time of heroes is dead: the christ god has killed it, leaving nothing but weeping martyrs and fear and shame.''.