Cyclops hades review movie#
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It resembles an unironic, dumbed-down version of the puppet movie Team America: World Police. It comes as no surprise to learn they are played by servicemen, not actors.

Cyclops hades review professional#

It is undeniably well-crafted, with action sequences that are above the norm and reflect professional knowledge of military technique.īut the script is amateurish and the characters are very poorly drawn - the two leads are like animatronic action-men. This Pentagon-approved feature is blatantly a recruitment film for the American special forces, so gung-ho it makes John Wayne’s The Green Berets look lily-livered. Nor does he endow the film with the slightest sense of reality. Lieberson’s direction lacks any sense of geography or light and shade. However, there is a disconcerting feel at the start of many scenes that everything is swimming out of focus and then back into it. Here, they are incorporated into the shoot, and the film is better for it. In Clash Of The Titans, the 3D effects were added in post-production.

The Cyclops are (yes, there’s more than one) a big advance on the jerky monsters created by Harry Harryhausen.Ī minotaur’s labyrinth is a technical marvel, as is a two-headed chimera. Other sights worth seeing are the special effects. The film’s biggest asset is the beautiful Rosamund Pike, taking over from Gemma Arterton as the warrior queen Andromeda in a fetching leather outfit. Other members of the cast include the god Hephaestus, played by Bill Nighy with a broad Yorkshire accent, possibly to differentiate himself from an American Zeus (Liam Neeson), a posh English Hades (Ralph Fiennes) and a cockney half-God Agenor (Toby Kebbell). Distractingly, John Bell - the boy playing Perseus’s son, Helion - speaks London prep school English, while Ares, Perseus’s half-brother, is played with an American accent . . . by a Venezuelan. The first thing director Jonathan Lieberson might have done was standardise the accents. He’s even more personality-free here than he was in Man On A Ledge. Regrettably, Wrath Of The Titans proves his rotten performance was no fluke. Mr Worthington apologised for his bad acting in Clash Of The Titans.

The Perseus played by Mel’s compatriot Sam Worthington might as well be called Perth-eus, for present-day Australia is as close to Ancient Greece as this movie gets. Comeback, Mel Gibson, all is forgiven! Mad Mel at least attempted the right accent when he essayed a part.