Wrath of the Titans (2012)
Directed by Jonathan Liebesman
Perseus tries to live a quieter life as a village fisherman while – dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion – the gods are losing control of the long-imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos.
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But the looks can’t match the story, a hodgepodge screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (“Wrath of the Titans”) and Will Beall (“Gangster Squad”), with story credit going to Geoff Johns, Wan and Beall.
The screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (“The Conjuring 2”), Will Beall (“Gangster Squad”) and others proverbially throws everything at the wall to see what sticks: childhood abandonment issues, action sequences from “Jason Bourne” and “Wrath of the Titans” films, “Star Wars” imagery and conflicts, Arthurian legend, “Thor” movie-like dialogue, creatures from the menu at Red Lobster.
The most direct cinematic comparison would be the Clash of the Titans, both the original 1981 classic and the execrable 2010 remake and its languid sequel Wrath Of The Titans.
If "Thor" and "Stargate" and "Wrath of the Titans" got together and had a threesome, this would be the unholy spawn that would be birthed from it.
A treasure trove of gilded fantasy bric-a-brac and clashing accents, Proyas’ sword-and-sandals space opera is a head above the likes of Wrath Of The Titans , but it rapidly devolves into a tedious and repetitive succession of monster chases, booby traps, and temples that start to crumble at the last minute.
Instead of an unmitigated disaster of Wrath of the Titans proportions, what Proyas has painstakingly crafted here is an agreeably bonkers, lavishly decadent lark that delivers enough visual spectacle to offset its narrative absurdity and piss-poor casting choices.