The sword-and-sandals genre gets a stylized shot to the senses with this hard-R-rated epic from visionary director Tarsem Singh. Using Greek mythology as a backdrop, the filmmaker has created a fantastical picture full of epic scale, classical compositions, and, oh yes, lots of blood for the audience to feast upon. And while the drama doesn’t hold quite enough weight to justify the film’s deliberate pacing (the picture clocks in at just under two hours), the out-there visuals and commanding leads help keep it from wallowing in big-army-fights-big-army computer-generated tedium.
The story centers on peasant hero Theseus (Henry Cavill), who, under the tutelage o...
Released:
2011
Rated:
n/a
Length:
110 mins