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Beowulf (1999)

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Reviews Counted:5

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Rotten:5

Average Rating:3.6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Synopsis: Beowulf (Christopher Lambert) is a wandering warrior who happens upon The Outpost, a fortress under siege from the mysterious monster Grendel. Beowulf offers his services and manages to actually... Beowulf (Christopher Lambert) is a wandering warrior who happens upon The Outpost, a fortress under siege from the mysterious monster Grendel. Beowulf offers his services and manages to actually wound the beast, but he hides a secret that may prove as dangerous as the monster itself. A post-apocalyptic sci-fi adaptaion of the medieval Anglo-Saxon legend. Filmed in Romania. [More]

Starring: Christopher Lambert, Rhona Mitra, Patricia Velasquez, Roger Sloman

Starring: Christopher Lambert, Rhona Mitra, Patricia Velasquez, Roger Sloman, Oliver Cotton, Gotz Otto, Layla Roberts

Director: Graham Baker

Director: Graham Baker
Screenwriter: Mark Leahy, David Chappe
Producer: Gregory Cascante, Lawrence Kasanoff, Donald Kushner

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Oct 17, 2000

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  • Christopher Lambert (MORTAL KOMBAT, HIGHLANDER) stars in this futuristic update of the classic poem written in 900 AD and set in a world of supernatural evil and inexplicable danger! Torn from a legend whose roots are buried in the mists of time, Beowulf is half man -- half god. Living in a techno-futile world of the future, a medieval land where technology's secrets are locked away in a mute past, Beowulf fights his way through a besieging army and into a mysterious, ominous castle on the edge of nowhere to face an evil within ... a beastly spawn of man and demon named Grendel. Now he must fight to the death in order to quell the raging violence hidden deep in his own bedeviled soul!
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    [Beowful is] a bizarre hybrid, as strange (if not quite as ghastly) as the half-human, half-demon Grendel that haunts the first act.

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