Clash of the Titans
Clash of the Titans is a remake of a ground breaking epic from 1981. There are three brother deities lording over the earth. Poseidon (an underused Danny Hudson) god of the sea, Hades (Ralph Fiennes) banished to the underworld by the trickery of Zeus (Liam Neeson) who is the creator of Man. Lately however mankind has been showing little respect and Zeus is ready to unleash a holy terror called a Kraken on his minions. Zeus has already cuckolded one errant king whose wife sired a demi-god son named Perseus (Avatar’s Sam Worthington) and now Zeus is threatening the rogue city of Argos with the Kraken by the next eclipse which is approaching fast. The king of Argos implores Perseus to save his citizenry as with his divinity he’s the only one capable of doing the job. Perseus feels powerless however as he’s been raised as a fisherman by Spyros (veteran Pete Postlethwaite, for a change with an unlikely hot onscreen wife (Elizabeth McGovern) alas for him for way too short of a time) who perished at the hands of Hades. Hades has an agenda that requires the unleashing of the Kraken’s wrath and he does everything in his power to stop Perseus from attaining the one thing that will stop the beast – the hideous head of Medusa. He goes so far as to convince the citizens of Argos that the Kraken can only be stopped by the sacrifice of the innocent princess Andromeda (Alexa Davalos). Not that I’m telling tales out of school – wait, yes I am since the story is based on well known Greek mythology that is the genesis of many household names. It’s in 3D which is almost mandated now for splashy big budget Hollywood renderings but in this case it’s subtle to the point of being almost unnoticeable making its necessity like the story itself, a myth.