GODS of EGYPT (2016) : Trailer and Review

 

Gerard Butler seems to be loving movies that are ancient with swords as he features in this movie GODS of EGYPT alongside Nikolaj Coster Waldau from Game of Thrones. God of the air Horus is about to be coronated king of Egypt when his uncle Set(Gerard Butler) comes and presents a horn as a gift and tells him to blow it. Little did he know it was a signal for his Uncle's army to come in. Set kills his brother the current King and challenges Horus to a fight and after a while of hand combat they both transfrom to some Marvel robot-like creatures which i wonder why they didn't do from the start. Set over-powers him with a little cheating and plucks out his eye which seems to possess power. Just as he is about to kill him Hathor the god of love pleads on his behalf to show mercy and spare his life. He is then cast away to a crypt and his eye is kept in a location with security mechanism worse than laser beams. Then Bek a mortal boy whose girlfriend believes so much in Horus goes on a quest to retrieve his eyes and return it to Horus but he unfortunately finds only one eye. In the process of his escape with his girlfriend she is shot by an arrow and she dies. Horus promises to bring her back if he helps him locate the other eye so he can save all of Egypt. Horus is quite aware that there is nothing he can do to bring her back but he says that to motivate Bek in having an alliance with him. They also get help from Hathor and Thoth the god of wisdom. In the end they defeat Set but Bek dies in the process. When Horus takes his body so he can lay it beside his girlfriend his father appears to him to ask for a wish. He asks that both Bek and his girlfriend be restored back to life and it is granted. Horus becomes the king of Egypt with Bek being his special adviser. 

While this may be an interesting plot some things are wrong with this movie, starting from the part where the casts do not look like Egyptians  with a lot of white faces as opposed to what ancient Egypt should look like.Although the director has apologized publicly.

Then the area of poor graphics which does not make the movie very real in an era where CGI graphics has taken over, the movie looks like it was shot years ago.

Also the god of wisdom didn't seem very wise to me as I can't exactly pin point one wise thing he did. Horus played by Nikolaj Coster Waldau didn't portray his role with so much energy as if to say he was bored by it and Bek did most of the work seeming like a god himself and being the main attraction of the movie. I also did not quite grasp the concept of "immortals" dying. I mean immortals don't die right?
However,the movie did deliver on being engaging for most of the run time and displays the love side as well as the action with a nice plot.

If you enjoyed movies like clash of the titans then you would probably find this movie fun. Here is the trailer below. Enjoy.