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If you are a rabid fan of ye olde myth Beowulf, and are dying to study it adapted to film, then this is probably not for you. I recommend The 13th Warrior instead. Actually, I recommend The 13th Warrior to any fan of medieval action or fantasy adventure. My endorsement of Beowulf doesn’t go NEARLY as far, and yet somehow, in spite of its many glaring flaws, I accept this “adaptation” quite involving.
This straight-to-video year 2000 acquire on the frail record stars Christopher Lambert as the superhuman hero Beowulf, except this isn’t the Dim Ages. Instead, the events lift site in a post-apocalyptic future of gears and steaming pipes (a setting that, I feel, was a mistake) . It has Hrothgar the “Border Lord,” Grendel, and Grendel’s mother, but everything else from the poem is absent, and here the similarities initiate to wane. As movies go, this is Fortress meets Mortal Kombat (both of which starred Lambert) meets Excited Max, and thrown somewhere in the middle of this techno-gothic realm is Beowulf. Beowulf himself has become a high-flying martial artist (thanks to Lambert’s stand-in, naturally) ; Grendel’s mother has become a sexy porn star succubus who seduces Hrothgar in his dreams; and Grendel is your typical B-movie creature with some purple haze surrounding him at all times to form the costume seem more imposing (and, point of fact, it does construct the man in a monster suit beastie seem less like what it actually is) .
Not unlike the obsolete fantasy flick The Sword and the Sorcerer, Beowulf tranquil manages to be fun in spite of its many failings and sometimes comical production values (not to mention funny acting) . I tranquil haven’t managed to steal how it can equal more than the sum of its parts, but if you don’t interrogate a film version of the ancient tale and instead inquire a second-rate Lambert action flick, you might have fun also. (stress on MIGHT – different strokes for different folks…)
To call this version of Beowulf mediocre wouldn’t be appropriate to the level of blandness that it brings to the veil. There’s relatively limited to like in this post-apocalyptic recasting of the worn poem, itself a 10th Century Christianized retelling of an even older pagan chronicle.
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Christopher Lambert stars (which should inform you most of what you need to know already) and does almost as a satisfactory job of acting as he did in the Highlander movies, which is to say not that well at all. To be glorious, he isn’t given mighty to work with here and neither is the rest of the cast (more on them later.) He shapely mighty broods around the cover with a perpetual scowl on. He’s also very minute like the Beowulf of yarn. This version of Beowulf is an abomination (I don’t want to say too considerable for anxiety of giving away the anecdote) and is thankfully a virtual martial arts master as well. Ironically, for all of his talent he is unable to best Grendal nearly as easily as the recent Beowulf who in one fight ripped the beast’s arm off.
The cast is mostly a joke. It’s certain that the director felt that recasting the account in the future would give him more possibilities. After all, in the 10th century there were few women who liked to build their men to shame by kicking more butt then they could. And they also didn’t care to dress with as petite clothing as possible. As hard as it might be for our culture to realize, there was a time when modesty was a virtue. Also very rare among the 10th century Danes were dark men who’s sole purpose was funny relief. But panic not, this movie’s got that angle covered. The king is well cast and is mostly sympathetic. But he ends up being fragment of the largest pains to near along in this long, black line of disasters.
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Because recognize, what would Beowulf be without lots of sex? Oh wait, the unusual didn’t have sex, you say? Eh, it should have. And this movie makes obvious that you know that it’s all about sex. Thankfully, we’re spared most of the details but by the raze (and again, I can’t say too great without ruining the waste) it’s perfectly sure that no record can stand up against our sex obsessed culture. Add to this a ridiculous interpretation of Grendal’s mother and you’re thankfully almost to the waste of this garbage. As a brand to those who are familiar with the poem, the movie does not conceal the final third of Beowulf’s fable and barely manages to include a horribly mangled version of the middle third. Hollywood quiet seems obsessed with a “joyful” ending and so that is what we pick up, albiet a shallow and absurd delighted ending considering the rest of the movie.
If techno music, overly-choreographed fights re-using the same moves several times, shallow characters, mediocre effects, and flat acting are your view of a helpful time…then go and hold this movie up. Otherwise, unless you’re a hardcore science fiction fan, you’ll want to end away from it. For those of us addicted to sci-fi, it’s probably worth seeing once fair to say you have seen it. But after that, there isn’t mighty there.
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