The best thing about “Wrath of the Titans” is Toby Kebbell (“Rockn-Rolla”) as Agenor, the wise-cracking human son of Poseidon (Danny Huston) and Perseus’ cousin, as well as peerless Bill Nighy (“Pirates of the Caribbean”), who turns engineer-god Hephaestus into a crazy Scotsman. Worthington remains an amiable figure in his films, but his action-figure Perseus, who is repeatedly thrown through stone walls, is a bit of a dullard.
Overall, I felt like I was being pounded to death by the theater’s subwoofers and having things flung at me from the screen.
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Waiting to see if Fiennes and Neeson would crack up reciting some of the appalling dialogue was the most suspenseful aspect of the film for me. But those dopey -giant scorpions have been replaced by several troll-like Cyclops. Notably, these writers also incorporate the labyrinth and Minotaur into their vulgar pastiche. That is this film’s lame plot as written by Dan Mazeau, David Johnson (“Red Riding Hood”) and Greg Berlanti (“Green Lantern”). The sequel has a new Andromeda (Rosamund Pike), conceived here as a warrior queen. Perseus, who is again called forth to save the world, is back to being a fisherman since defeating the Kraken and has a young son Helius (John Bell) to boot, although his wife is apparently dead. This time around, Hades teams up with Zeus’ son Ares (Edgar Ramirez of “Carlos”), the god of war and half-brother of Perseus (Sam Worthington, who needs to lay off the cookies).Īres and Hades imprison Zeus in Tartarus, where Cronos, the titan father of the gods, who resembles a giant, human-shaped cinder (and who devoured his children, BTW), drains Zeus of his power in order to reawaken and destroy the universe. Ralph Fiennes, still playing Voldemort, is back as brooding troublemaker Hades, who’s had a chip on his shoulder ever since being sent to rule the Underworld by big brother Zeus (Liam Neeson, this generation’s Charlton Heston). While the new film, which I saw in IMAX 3-D, looks better than its predecessor (How could it not?), it is the same mashup of Greek mythology for dummies, phony Oedipal conflicts (about five of them by my count), slumming high-class Brit actors, incoherently edited action and CGI Cheez Whiz. This is just as well since this follow-up to the eye-gougingly awful but hugely successful 2010 effort “Clash of the Titans” is just a remake. “Wrath of the Titans” is about to face the wrath of Katniss Everdeen at the box office.
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