+ Worst Movie of the Year
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| Things look dark, dramatic and dangerous on this poster for Jonathan Liebesman's Wrath of the Titans, which showcases the film's CGI prowess |
Perseus must fight again, because people have lost faith in the gods, and therefore the imprisoned Titan Kronos and other monsters of the underworld break free.
Wrath of the Titans is the sequel to Louis Leterrier's good Clash of the Titans (2010), (which was a remake of Desmond Davis' 1981 same-titled adventure). It is written by Dan Mazeau and David Leslie Johnson (The Conjuring 2 (2016)), with Greg Berlanti (Arrow (2012-17)) contributing story elements, and directed by South-African Jonathan Liebesman (Battle Los Angeles (2011)).
No one performs well in this enormously dispirited, charmless, thin followup, a strictly for-the-dollars construction, helmed by a wholly incapable director.
The mythic adventure action is made with 3D in mind, which also doesn't make it win when watched in a living room, (I - like most of the rest of the world - have yet to try watching a 3D title in 3D at home, which I don't expect can be too great of an experience anyway.) Wrath of the Titans does have some impressive CGI-rendered shots of destruction seen from a distance, which are neat to look at and which make up the film's only real attraction.
It also has some big stars, though none of them really improve matters: Sexy Toby Kebbell (Fantastic Four (2015)) is in it, - but is for some reason hidden away behind a ridiculous amount of glued on hair. Liam Neeson (Chloe (2009)) and Ralph Fiennes (In Bruges (2008)) return, and their scenes together made me think of their momentous co-starring in Steven Spielberg's masterpiece Schindler's List (1993), and let it be said here once and for all that the remembrance doesn't do Wrath of the Titans any favors.
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Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 150 mil. $
Box office: 305.2 mil. $
= Flop
[Wrath of the Titans premiered March 28 (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and runs 99 minutes. Filming took place from March 2011 - ? in Wales and England, including in London, and in Spain. The film opened #2, behind holdover hit The Hunger Games, to a 33.4 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another week in the top 5 (#4) and grossed a disappointing 83.6 mil. $ (27.4 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Russia with 22.2 mil. $ (7.3 %) and Mexico with 17.8 mil. $ (5.8 %). Roger Ebert gave the film 2/4 stars, translating to one notch better than this review. Plans for another sequel were scrapped due to the poor performance of the film. Wrath of the Titans is rotten at 26 % with a 4.5/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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