A Disappointing Continuation

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I've never read the original Beowulf story but movie is incredibly entertaining. Ray Winstone's performance as the titular geat had me infested the entire time and the CGI, for being 11 years old now, is simply fantastic. The only flaw I can think of is that towards the start of the third act(around the 40 minute mark) the film hits a storytelling slump. That's all. More films like this which celebrate the male gender need to release in current day.

This movie is an insult to the original poem.I have to wonder why some people make movies based on stories or characters they hate (as the director himself has admitted). I also wonder how anyone can hate Beowulf, one of the greatest stories ever told. How is that even possible?When I first heard that they were making a movie based on Beowulf, I was so excited. I could almost picture it in my head. Misty landscapes, dark, scary forests...I looked forward to the epic battle between Beowulf and Grendel, and the heroic (and tragic) fight with the dragon.What I got instead was a soulless CGI movie made by people who really hate Beowulf. A deconstructed version of the epic poem, full of politically correct nonsense. Beowulf isn't portrayed as a hero in this movie. Instead, he's a lying manwhore who sleeps with everything that moves. Grendel is just a poor misunderstood creature and King Hrothgar's illegitimate son. Almost every male character in this movie is stupid/evil/perverted/cruel and likes to have sex with female monsters.What's the point? Why make movies like this? Movies where the hero is as bad as everyone else, or worse. It's immoral, mean-spirited and dangerous. It's cynical, anti-heroic, anti-Christian, anti-male and extremely boring. What a nihilistic piece of trash.I hope someone'll make a good version of Beowulf in the near future, but I really doubt it. This should have been made much earlier, when someone like Ray Harryhausen lived. Modern filmmakers aren't interested in heroes like Beowulf, they only want to deconstruct and politicize everything.Someone should make a movie where Robert Zemeckis life is deconstructed in the same way he deconstructed Beowulf.

It was just too much...but to be fair I saw it in 3D. The none 3D version may have actually been better, but honestly I have no way of knowing.At first it was, well, it was wow. I had never actually seen anything in 3D, being far too young for for the first round of popular 3D movies to hit the theater, but my father assured me it was nothing compared to this...He also assured me it didn't make him as nauseous, and sometimes I can see where he's coming from on that point.It came out right in the first wave of the new 3D, right when 3D was becoming popular again and actually worth it.And it was jaw dropping even if some of the motion made my old man sick.But it was also too much. A new technology and one that was a spectacular in itself, but not exactly tested to perfection.It seemed like a 14 year-old girl putting on make-up and not yet understanding that less is more.Less than half an hour into it, I had no idea what was going on, the 3D was too distracting to even attempt to follow the plot.About an hour into it, the 3D got boring, and yes, still over-the-top distracting.By the time I left I had the feeling that I had just experienced something that I had never experienced before. I had the feeling that watching a movie on the big screen would never be the same again...but I still couldn't figure out if I saw a movie or not.

I'm a senior in high school, and we recently just finished reading the book "Beowulf". After we finished it, our teacher showed us this movie. Now, I had seen the movie once before, back when I was only in elementary school, and as a result I had a preconceived idea of the story of Beowulf. Reading the book, and then watching the movie, I could see that there were a myriad of differences. Some of those include Wulfgar being a very minor character in the books, as opposed to being Beowulf's best buddy, and Welthow hardly appearing at all. One of the much larger changes would be the much heavier involvement of Grendel's mother, however I understand completely as to why the director and producers decided to make these changes. Adapting an ancient epic poem to be exactly the same as the source to a modern day audience would probably see a box office flop. All the changes made sense to me to work for a theatrical film, and I really enjoyed the movie. Granted, there were some flaws in certain parts, but they all remain personal, for example I wasn't the biggest supporter of Grendel's design, but as I said, it's personal. Overall, the movie had plenty of ups, and very little downs, and I thoroughly enjoyed some of the voice acting and nods to the book. Easily recommend to anyone.