Gods of Egypt

Year of release : 2016

 

Run time : 2h8min

 

Genre : Adventure / Action

 

Cast : Gerard Butler , Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites

 

 

Where do I start?This movie was awful!

 

The movie starts with the narrator and these two lovebirds who get ready to go to the crowning of Horus. At the crowning, his father, Osiris,is killed by Set, the god who rules the desert,and Osiris' brother. He fights Horus,and Horus is left without his eyes and banished.

 

The mortal who is supposed to be the narrator,but his voice sounds more like Horus’,gets himself into trouble and gets his girl killed. He gets her to Horus’ temple asking for help,as what got her killed was getting Horus’ eye back from where it was hidden.

The ridiculous part is, Horus, a god, can’t bring her back although she just died, saying she crossed over, but as he does the incantation for her to cross over,we see her spirit rise from the flesh. So how the hell did she cross over? Since her spirit was still in her body,hence with them?!

 

She travels to the underworld and needs to cross over, but, Set changed the rules,and whoever dies needs to buy their place in the afterlife with as much gold as possible. She has nothing.

 

The leading character , Bek,teams up with Horus giving him his eye,in an attempt to get his woman back from the dead.

 

Set is on a mission to conquer the world and fights and kills the other gods ruling the earth, taking their powers,as in, their assets,like the brain,the wings..

 

This movie was ridiculous. Someone’s power doesn’t reside in the flesh but in the spirit, hence the items collected by Set are null.

Also,the visual effects were bad, The Mummy made in 1999 had better visual effects than this movie. It seemed that it was all filmed against the green or blue screen but it didn’t work like with 300 or Sin City,because the visuals were so bad.

The movie is set in Egypt but it has none of its glory,like what we’ve seen in Cleopatra 1963.The costumes were ugly, the women were dressed like today,in ugly rags. Hathor wore this ugly see-through tight dress.

 

What can I say?I didn’t like it,the story was bad,the gods living for a thousand years,so so much for immortality,lived among humans. The gods were also,almost all arseholes. Horus was an arsehole.

Set gets every god’s power and creates himself a new look when he transforms as he wants to be as powerful as his father Ra,to defeat him and take his place.

 

Rating : The Horror, The Horror !