Wrath of the Titans Reviews
For those with a burning curiosity to know how The Lord of the Rings as directed by Michael Bay might look, Wrath of the Titans provides an idea.
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| Original Score: 2/4
What it lacks are the very elements that made the first movie such a surprise: wit and nerve.
This feeble followup to 2010's godawful Clash of the Titans sucketh the mighty big one.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Worthington remains a distinctly humourless hero, which makes you long for the likes of a prime-time Harrison Ford or Arnold Schwarzenegger, who knew how to make a fondue out of cheese.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Globe and Mail
Top CriticThe father of the gods turned out to be a CGI-created, lava-spewing, mountain-sized creature with smudgy features and all the eloquence of a belch.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
A movie in which whole sequences consist of nothing but guys fighting stiff computer images. Such scenes would be boring even were they done well, but these scenes aren't done well.
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| Original Score: 2/4
This big-budget production will probably look terrific in IMAX, but what you'll mostly see in "Wrath" is the spectacle of Hollywood spending money in all the wrong places.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The good news is: "Wrath" is a much better film than "Clash" - lighter, more agile, with much better special effects and pretty decent 3-D.
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| Original Score: B-
A journey back to an ancient time when gods walked the earth, monsters breathed fire and stout-hearted warriors wore adorable leather cheerleader skirts with strappy gladiator sandals.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Doesn't drag in doling out familiar sensations.
Maybe it's just my imagination, but Sam Worthington seems to be getting slightly less stiff as an actor. He now smiles occasionally, and he's at least risen to the soulful inexpressiveness of the young Ryan O'Neal.
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| Original Score: B-
Countless boring sword-and-sandal skirmishes, none of which feel remotely suspenseful, until the hugeness of it all becomes a mildly passable joke.
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| Original Score: 2/5
While the special effects are sharper than in Clash of the Titans, the dialogue is equally uninspired.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Wrath radiates the straight-forward, straight-faced pleasures of the mytho-muscular epics, like Hercules and Jason and the Argonauts, produced in Europe a half-century ago.
[A] loud and agonizingly dull sequel that inherits all the problems that plagued its predecessor - and then some.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
This is pure product, a movie desperately without energy or enthusiasm of any kind.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
When the Titans last clashed two years ago, their dialogue was idiotic, their plot machinations impenetrable and their 3-D process an add-on disaster. The best I can say for this sequel-not such a bad best-is that you'll want to keep your 3-D glasses on.
Though the film shortchanges us on the promise of its title, providing only one titan, it is overkill in most other regards.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Rarely has a film so equally balanced macho and nacho...
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
[Perseus] just doesn't feel as motivated here. He's Complacent Rocky, when "Wrath'' needs Eye-of-the-Tiger Rocky. At least the 3-D passes muster.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The biggest fault is that comparatively little attention is given to the monsters. We see a swish of tail here, a giant foot there, but too often we're denied a lingering look at the destroyers.
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| Original Score: 2/5
To prefer Wrath of the Titans to its predecessor, the 2010 remake Clash of the Titans, is like saying that a punch in the stomach is better than a knee to the groin.
The actual story is incoherent, and the choppily paced movie is too short to develop the characters.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The ensuing good-natured idiocy is tempered with wit and self-awareness: the prospect of further additions to this franchise no longer sounds like divine punishment.
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| Original Score: 3/5
You get an idea of who the major players are, and then they spend a modest amount of time shouting laughable dialogue at one another while being all but forced off the screen by special effects.
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| Original Score: 2/4
It takes a CliffsNotes approach to mythology, fleecing it of both the drama and the fun. The gods certainly won't be smiling on this one.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Perhaps Liebesman, whose previous movie was the grim "Battle: Los Angeles," is too drawn to the spectacle of battle to find the balance of camp and seriousness a patently ludicrous film such as "Wrath of Titans" seeks.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Not a gigantic leap forward for cinema but, armed with a new director, a new story and the return of a trying-harder Worthington and good ol' Liam Neeson as a put-upon Zeus, a marked upgrade in quality.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
There's little about this picture to really endear the viewer after the whole thing wraps. That said, while it's happening, the sensationalism is, well, pretty sensational
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| Original Score: 3/5
It's a mess too, but it's far more defensible as a lazy Sunday lark for those who have just recently outgrown action figures.
A relentlessly mechanical piece of work that will not or cannot take the imaginative leaps to yield even fleeting moments of awe, wonder or charm.
