This movie had a weak opening weekend box office, it’s the sequel to a film that wasn’t good, and this one is worse. Why watch this when you could watch a half dozen other teen-aimed fantasy movies (like the far superior Lorax or Hunger Games) in theaters now?
What Works: It’s always a pleasure to see Schindler’s List co-stars Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson bouncing off each other again, and they are natural choices for the roles of Hades and Zeus. Also, the movie has a couple of sequences that are decent (like a battle with a cyclops, a battle with a minotaur, and especially a, you guessed it, battle with Chronos)…
What Doesn’t Work: But for those three action sequences that are somewhat inventive, there are about ten that aren’t. This movie really wore me down after a while as I felt bombarded and blasted with CGI overload and generic plot developments. This movie falls into every…single…trap available to an “amusement park movie” ride including, but not limited to: weak acting (rising stars Edgar Ramirez and Sam Worthington had better do more quality work than this going forward), not a single memorable line of dialogue, character types more than characters, character motivations that make no sense (why does Hades betray Zeus to a much more dangerous enemy?), and a lethal lack of genuine suspense.
What I Would Have Done Differently: Nobody thinks the original Clash of the Titans is a perfect movie, but nobody thinks the remake of Clash of the Titans was any better. So then why make a sequel to a remake that nobody liked?…And why give Sam Worthington such a stupid, frilly haircut (if he gets any more curls he’s going to look like little orphan Annie) to further add to the silliness?