Clash of the Titans (2010) - Leterrier's CGI-stuffed remake is surprisingly good

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1 Film Excess nomination:

Best Digital Effects (lost to Alice in Wonderland) 

+ Best Peplum Movie of the Year

An iconic Greek goddess seems to have gotten her snaky head cut off by Sam Worthington on this poster for Louis Leterrier's Clash of the Titans

Perseus is the son of Zeus, a half-god who lost his family to the wrath of the gods. He now becomes the hope of mankind, as he ventures on a dangerous journey to the Kraken, which must be killed!

Clash of the Titans is a handsome remake of the great 1981 movie of the same title. It has top-grade CGI, a real sense of adventure, plus it's attractively and excitingly put together.
Sam Worthington (Avatar (2009)) is not the world's most charismatic or interesting actor, but he works alright here. Mads Mikkelsen (King Arthur (2004)) and sexy Nicholas Hoult (Dark Places (2015)) pull the film up, and Ralph Fiennes (The Constant Gardener (2005)) and Liam Neeson (Gun Shy (2000)) adorn it with their integrity as veteran actors.
Clash of the Titans is written by Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim (2013)), Phil Hay  and Matt Manfredi (R.I.P.D. (2013), both) and directed by Louis Leterrier (Now You See Me (2013)). It is surprisingly solid in terms of story and entertainment value.

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Watch a clip from the film here

Cost: 125 mil. $
Box office: 493.2 mil. $
= Big hit
[Clash of the Titans was released April 2 and runs 106 minutes. Development began in 2002. Filming took place from April - July 2009 in England, Spain, Iceland and Ethiopia. Leterrier promoted the film's conversion to 3D around its release but in 2013 decried the decision and the film as such, saying: "It was famously rushed and famously horrible. It was absolutely horrible, the 3D. Nothing was working, it was just a gimmick to steal money from the audience. I’m a good boy and I rolled with the punches and everything, but it’s not my movie." The film opened #1, to a 61.2 mil. $ first weekend in North America, (staying atop for one more week), where it grossed 163.2 mil. $ (33.1 % of the total gross). Its 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 29.2 mil. $ (5.2 %) and Russia with 24.6 mil. $ (5 %). Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, equal to its rating here. Clash of the Titans is rotten at 28 % with a 4.3 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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