Even a Cyclops could see this is bad: Wrath of the Titans is titanically awful

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Warrior queen: Rosamund Pike

Comeback, Mel Gibson, all is forgiven! Mad Mel at least attempted the right accent when he essayed a part.

The Perseus played by Mel’s compatriot Sam Worthington might as well be called Perth-eus, for present-day Australia is as close to Ancient Greece as this movie gets.

Mr Worthington apologised for his bad acting in Clash Of The Titans.

Regrettably, Wrath Of The Titans proves his rotten performance was no fluke. He’s even more personality-free here than he was in Man On A Ledge.

The first thing director Jonathan Lieberson might have done was standardise the accents. Distractingly, John Bell - the boy playing Perseus’s son, Helion - speaks London prep school English, while Ares, Perseus’s half-brother, is played with an American accent . . . by a Venezuelan. Other members of the cast include the god Hephaestus, played by Bill Nighy with a broad Yorkshire accent, possibly to differentiate himself from an American Zeus (Liam Neeson), a posh English Hades (Ralph Fiennes) and a cockney half-God Agenor (Toby Kebbell).

The film’s biggest asset is the beautiful Rosamund Pike, taking over from Gemma Arterton as the warrior queen Andromeda in a fetching leather outfit.

Other sights worth seeing are the special effects. The Cyclops are (yes, there’s more than one) a big advance on the jerky monsters created by Harry Harryhausen.

A minotaur’s labyrinth is a technical marvel, as is a two-headed chimera. In Clash Of The Titans, the 3D effects were added in post-production. Here, they are incorporated into the shoot, and the film is better for it.

However, there is a disconcerting feel at the start of many scenes that everything is swimming out of focus and then back into it.

Lieberson’s direction lacks any sense of geography or light and shade. Nor does he endow the film with the slightest sense of reality.

Another dud: Sam Worthington's acting is once again awful

The rules of the gods’ universe seem to be made up as the film goes along, and their behaviour seems petulant, rather than anything grander. I’m not even sure what the Titans were wrathful about.

The thing that should have angered them is the script, which is boring, banal and bereft of humour.

By the end of 100 noisy minutes, the final ten of which are just a series of explosions, little Helios was wailing:

‘I’m actually looking forward to going back home’ - a sentiment which inspired audible agreement in more than one audience member.


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