Review of Wrath of the Titans (2012) by Jonathan B — 12 Dec 2014

Rosamund Pike struggles to bring any sense of regality to this mess of a film. She stands out as being one of the few lead actors who actually tries to portray anything approaching characterisation and emotion.

Both Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes manage to pull off their Greek God acting in an acceptable manner but sadly, few of the other actors make much of an impression. Sam Worthington mumbles incoherently and spends much of his time being beaten up and staring exhaustedly at his son in an effort to summon up that last drop of strength to bump off whatever CGI monster is trying to eat him at the time and quite what Edgar Ramirez thinks he's doing with his lack lustre performance is beyond me.

Jonathan Liebesman clearly doesn't care about his actors or the incomprehensible plot and concentrates on the special effects. It hats be said these are impressive but sadly, one gets the feeling of watching a sequence of video game scenes, stitched together with a tenuous bit of pseudo-Greek mythology.

The editing is clumsy meaning there are several plot points that simply don't make any sense and one is left with too many unresolved threads or jarring cuts to allow the story to develop and flow.

This film was really just made to cash in on the success of the first film and is, at best, a second rate action movie. All noise and no no substance and rather a let down.