Preview: Gods of Egypt

I’m a HUGE fan of mythology.  I know some stuff about Greek, Norse and some Christian mythology.  I have to confess that I don’t know much about Egyptian mythology, but from what I have read, it’s pretty epic.  But I’m pretty sure it didn’t look anything like Alex Proyas’ Gods of Egypt.  Gerard Butler plays Set, the Egyptian god of Chaos: A very, very evil and naughty god.  Set is well….set in his ways to conquer the world and drown it in chaos, as gods of chaos like to do.  Standing in his way is Horus, played by Jamie Lannister…I mean, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and a mortal named Bek, played by Brenton Thwaites.  The problem is, is that Set has armies of gods, demons and other nefarious villains at his beck and call.  What does Horus have?  Bek.  I’ll be truthful, this movie looks wildly awful.  It looks like the Egyptian version of Clash of the Titans.  Visually, it looks wild and fun.  I have no illusions that this movie is not going to be good.  I will give it the benefit of the doubt, however, as it is being directed by Alex Proyas.  Alex Proyas gave us The Crow, which was one of the best comic book movies ever made, as well as the sci-fi noir film, Dark City.  He also gave us I, Robot and Knowing.  He might pull a rabbit out of his hat with this one.  As someone who thoroughly enjoyed the 300 and Clash of the Titans films, this is one I will be looking at.  You can tell right from the get-go that this is clearly a visual effects film.  The amount of CGI on display is extraordinary.  Some of it looks pretty good, but some of it looks really, really bad.  This isn’t the first time that Gerard Butler has played a legendary character.  He played Leonidas in 300, so this really isn’t that much of a stretch for him.  I just never figured on Set having a Scottish accent.  Bizarre, no?  Brenton Thwaites is starting to make a name for himself with Maleficent, The Giver, and Oculus under his belt.  He will also be starring in the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.  Geoffrey Rush will be playing the sun god, Ra.  Two actresses from the amazing Mad Max: Fury Road are also making an appearance: Courtney Eaton and Abby Lee.  Bryan Brown, Rufus Sewell and Bruce Spence are also showing up.  The movie has quite the cast, I just hope that Alex Proyas knows what he’s doing.

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