Review of Gods of Egypt (2016) by Tuivel — 30 Apr 2016

I found the movie very entertaining and don't really understand why it gets so many bad reviews. It's a fun mix of mythology, action and fantasy. Some great visuals and epic scenes, one of my favourites beeing Ra's fight upon the sun barque against the god of darkness and chaos Apophis! I could imagine that the CGI could maybe look a bit unrealistic or cheesy on a normal screen, but seeing it in 3D on the big screen it actually looked rather convincing and cool.

And it's not easy to display gods and their epic fights in a way that does them justice without getting too over the top. Gerard Butler is allways fun to watch, and the others are doing ok. Some lines are cheesy, but overall the characters are likeable.

Script and story are ok too. I liked the way they portraied the gods. Wielding terrible power, but not almighty, and rather human like in character. More entertaining and closer to the mythological source material than other movies like Clash of the Titans, or Thor.

And yes they cast white actors (among others) to play egyptian gods which is not ideal, but understandable. If europeans can deal with a black Heimdal in Thor (you know, the god that is literally called "the whitest of the Aesir" and "the white As" in the source mythology), egyptians should be able to handle a white Horus.

Hey at least Toth was black and Anubis was a Jackal.