Guys in skirts...! Now that's something we girls look forward to...
I have always been a fan of Greek mythology. Who isn't? Clean white dresses, diadems, horses with wings... ever since the Hercules and Xena series. When Clash of The Titans box officed its way through the cinema, there was a hope for the Greek to resurface and fill the voids that Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter left, rather than the apalling robotic attempt of a movie, transformers.
Clash made a high benchmark for it's sequel to match with. With high usage of CGIs and detailed reference to the history of Perseus, Clash became a theatrical legend. But sadly, Wrath didn't manage to reach the standard it set for itself. In other words, it flopped.
The CGI was all right. What was wrong about the movie started with Perseus's hair. It distracted me from the whole storyline. I survived through the whole movie wishing someone had sent the producers a pair of scissors to set things correct. Next, was the whole cliche of Gods betraying Gods and Gods sucking other Gods' powers to resurrect an older God. And the father of all Gods, the mighty Titan, Cronos turned out to be a humongous brainless monster made out of magma who apparently only knows how to roar and poof fire and dusts all over the place.
The acceptable parts in the movie include the epic battle of Zeus+Hades (yes, they ironically became best friends in the end) Vs the back and front people thingy, and the cool fiery effect on gods' weapons. Oh yeah I guess the script was kinda funny too.
So yeah, Perseus who was supposed to be a demi-god ended up saving the day in a messy way, having being thrown here and there by the weird-looking Ares. Only 4 Gods made an appearance, and 75% of em died and turned into dust. I was kinda looking forward for more, no idea what happened to Athena, Aphrodite, Apollo etc during the whole crisis.
So, overall the movie is watchable, once. You'll probably walk out the cinema saying "that's it...?" because that's what I did. And I know why Io decided to die in the movie.
