Wrath Of The Titans

Wrath of The Titans

Another Full Scale Visual Effect

3 April 2012
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Producer: Basil Iwanyk / Polly Cohen Johnson
Script: Dan Mazeau / David Leslie Johnson
Cast: Sam Warthington / Liam Nesson / Ralph Fiennes / Rosamund Pike / Bill Nighy
Cinematography: Ben Davis
Editing: Martin Walsh
Music: Javier Navarrete
Studio:  Legendary Pictures
Distributor: CBS Films
Running Time: 99 minutes
Budget: $150 million
It was astonishing, the Greek Gods were never be harmonious whether they were brothers. Conflict in The Clash of the Titans, happened because Hades got offended when Aphrodite was assumed less beautiful than Andromeda. This time Hades is making a new problem, he wants to release his father, the big monster, Kronos, which was hardly to get locked up, just to revenge since he was thrown by Zeus became the guard of hell.  Moreover Ares, son of Zeus, which always envy with Perseus, betrays his father. They are fooling themselves ridiculously, they even don’t know the consequences. It is the story core of Wrath of The Titans, not a bravery story, but a ridiculous one.

Thank God, the foolishness is not happened on its visual effect which becomes the main spectacle of this movie. The visual effect is imaginative, impressively made the great disaster movie “2012” looked like a “kids movie”. Difficult set such as labyrinth was amazing, sadly the minotaur was not. The set at Tartarus and Cyclops monster seemed artificial, but the climax sequence redeemed it. Seems there had never been the “big disaster” sequence which was visualized as scary as that, when Kronos, the father of gods, appeared. Generally, its visual effect was much more impressive than Clash of Titans.

There was nothing offered from other aspect of this movie. Nothing particular with the acting and the dialogue seemed awkward. The senior actor, Liam Nesson and Ralph Fiennes did not helped much. Rosamund Pike as Andromeda was merely a sweetener compared to IO on Clash of The Titans. The funniest thing, again the director satirized Bubo’s character, the mechanic owl, friend of Perseus on Clash of the Titans (1981), by displaying twice one full shot. Like the first movie of it, Wrath of The Titans was solely offering a dazzling big scale of visual effect, without the moviegoers even thought hardly about the story and just enjoyed the movie. It’s not that bad

(score C+)

M. Pradipta

Assistant editor and senior writer at Montase, and movie lovers