Film #63: Beowulf (2007)

Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

Starring: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie

This film apparently follows a poem of some sort, about a warrior who fought a monster and then was captured by the beauty of that creature's mother.

So, Anthony Hopkins is a king who is tormented by a monster (who is actually his son) and calls on a warrior, Beowulf, to kill it. Beowulf does so and is then tormented by the monster's mother. He goes to kill it but is captured by her beauty and eventually has a son with her, who turns out to be a dragon.
It's a little bit crazy but it's still good.

The thing that bothers me with this film the most is that no matter what part Ray Winstone plays, he can't shake that Cockney accent. It's annoying when everyone has a Danish accent and there's Beowulf there going "I'm 'ere to shlay ya monshta!"

The animation is also well done but I have to say, extremely pointless. Why animate it? It looks real enough that they had to have acted it out first, why not leave it like that?

Good film anyways.

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