Gods of Egypt Misses on Good Concept
Story By: Gabriel Spaulding
In a world where Gods choose to live a life among men, the land is ruled by an ancient Egyptian god known as Osiris (Bryan Brown). As Osiris is crowning his son, Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) as the new king of Egypt, his brother, Set (Gerard Butler) kills him, exiles Horus, and crowns himself as the new king.
The Gods of Egypt (2016) is a story of Gods among men, in a time period over one thousand years ago. This movie was very hit-and-miss, and it was very much comparable to Wrath of the Titans (2012), but with an Egyptian setting. The casting choices felt very poor, because while there was a few Egyptian actors in the film, most of the cast consisted of Caucasian people, which is somewhat inaccurate for the time period.
The movie also seemed to try and focus more on special effects than the actual plot. However, it wasn’t completely bad.
This film may have mainly been focused on looking cool, but the plot was at least subpar, which is good enough for the general audience of this type of film. And while it mainly focused on special effects, they were very well done special effects, and not extremely over the top. For this type of film, it was pretty good, even though it attempted to be an intellectual film most of the time.
Overall, this was a fairly decent film, with great special effects but a decent-at-best plot. This film deserves an overall rating of around 3.5 out of 5 stars.
In a world where Gods choose to live a life among men, the land is ruled by an ancient Egyptian god known as Osiris (Bryan Brown). As Osiris is crowning his son, Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) as the new king of Egypt, his brother, Set (Gerard Butler) kills him, exiles Horus, and crowns himself as the new king.
The Gods of Egypt (2016) is a story of Gods among men, in a time period over one thousand years ago. This movie was very hit-and-miss, and it was very much comparable to Wrath of the Titans (2012), but with an Egyptian setting. The casting choices felt very poor, because while there was a few Egyptian actors in the film, most of the cast consisted of Caucasian people, which is somewhat inaccurate for the time period.
The movie also seemed to try and focus more on special effects than the actual plot. However, it wasn’t completely bad.
This film may have mainly been focused on looking cool, but the plot was at least subpar, which is good enough for the general audience of this type of film. And while it mainly focused on special effects, they were very well done special effects, and not extremely over the top. For this type of film, it was pretty good, even though it attempted to be an intellectual film most of the time.
Overall, this was a fairly decent film, with great special effects but a decent-at-best plot. This film deserves an overall rating of around 3.5 out of 5 stars.